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Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Originally Posted by Garfieldian
Maine Lobster is a fact?
Maine itself has much better choices for seafood than the city of Boston. Even the North Shore suburbs in Mass. have better selection. The smaller coastal communities with the clam shacks and little fishing harbors are the best (Gloucester/Essex/Ipwsich, MA, Portsmouth, NH, York/Ogunquit/Kennebunkport/Rockland/Boothbay Harbor, ME) and several more.
Boston, being the home of Legal Seafood, being the city with the best clam chowder and of course the fact of Maine lobster.
I find Legal Seafood to range from awful to mediocre in quality. I've been told it used to be better. Maybe they've just spread themselves too thin. Legal seafood's clam chowder is good, but then again it's made by Blount Seafood in Fall River, MA and is not their own product.
OK I get it, they became a chain and now they are not at the top of their game anymore. Still, the reviews are pretty good, for the original as well as the branch locations.
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Originally Posted by lrfox
I find Legal Seafood to range from awful to mediocre in quality. I've been told it used to be better. Maybe they've just spread themselves too thin. Legal seafood's clam chowder is good, but then again it's made by Blount Seafood in Fall River, MA and is not their own product.
Doesn't that support the notion that seafood is good in Boston? This thread is about the top 5 cities, not towns. Why are you bringing up towns? Seafood is good in Cape May, NJ and in Annapolis, MD, too.
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Originally Posted by caphillsea77
Maine itself has much better choices for seafood than the city of Boston. Even the North Shore suburbs in Mass. have better selection. The smaller coastal communities with the clam shacks and little fishing harbors are the best (Gloucester/Essex/Ipwsich, MA, Portsmouth, NH, York/Ogunquit/Kennebunkport/Rockland/Boothbay Harbor, ME) and several more.
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Doesn't that support the notion that seafood is good in Boston? This thread is about the top 5 cities, not towns. Why are you bringing up towns? Seafood is good in Cape May, NJ and in Annapolis, MD, too.
Well pardon me then, I didn't realize there were authorative and inflexible rules as to where we can post about or that the city of Boston extended well up into Maine. Why must it always boil down to major cities on this thread? I'm sure most wouldn't mind if one were to elaborate on how good seafood is in Cape May or Annapolis, we really don't need arbitrary urban nitpicking. Details and specifics based on experience are good thing and still relevant to the topic at hand. Often times content will expand on many of these threads, it doesn't make it irrelevant. It's just a blog. Sheesh...
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Originally Posted by lrfox
I find Legal Seafood to range from awful to mediocre in quality. I've been told it used to be better. Maybe they've just spread themselves too thin. Legal seafood's clam chowder is good, but then again it's made by Blount Seafood in Fall River, MA and is not their own product.
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Last edited by Champ le monstre du lac; 09-10-2011 at 05:58 PM..
Still not fresh, if it doesn't come off the boat that morning it isn't fresh imo. That's why you'll notice the sushi quality, say in Seattle, Vancouver, Hawaii, Japan to be a bit above average. The better restaurants have somebody in charge of buying sent to the docks in the morning to pick the best fish for that day or have their own boat. The average ones might get them from a distributor, and your poor ones are probably pre frozen.
There's morning fresh and afternoon fresh sea food.....
lol. Enjoy your fish. Of all foods, fish is the most likely to be good when eaten at a restaurant in a town with an active fishing fleet. Most cities don't have that. There are no rules, I'm just pointing out what the OP wished to discuss. If you want to go OT with it, that's just you deciding what the rules are. Most people make the exact same calculus you do whenever they drive a car, that the rules really don't apply to them so going 10 over the limit on the highway is OK because everybody does it. Same thing occurs with this forum. I'm as guilty as anybody.
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Originally Posted by caphillsea77
Well pardon me then, I didn't realize there were authorative and inflexible rules as to where we can post about or that the city of Boston extended well up into Maine. Why must it always boil down to major cities on this thread? I'm sure most wouldn't mind if one were to elaborate on how good seafood is in Cape May or Annapolis, we really don't need arbitrary urban nitpicking. Details and specifics based on experience are good thing and still relevant to the topic at hand. Often times content will expand on many of these threads, it doesn't make it irrelevant. It's just a blog. Sheesh...
This is true.
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