The extensive menu hops and skips from herring to clam stew to hummus to a fried catfish hero.
One of my favorite dishes from the Southern Italian region of Apulia is bitter greens with dried favas, and I love a simple mussel or clam stew with beans and greens.
He makes Clam Stew with homemade Oyster Crackers and Braised Brisket from Tallgrass Beef in preparation for January 12. Exec Producer, Creator, Host of The Celebrity Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano.
Take a day trip to nearby Cercal and further inland to Odemira, two traditional Alentejo villages where there are fewer tourists and great local food – the famous sourdough bread, pork with clams, lamb stew, and sheep's cheese.
Koreatown is full of restaurants that specialize in one dish, be it sliced short ribs, blowfish soup, blood sausage, grilled clams, military stew, steamed pig's feet, bone broth or intestines.
On the day we were there, treated for lunch by the festival, we had hummus along with roasted vegetables, a perfectly cooked, super simple yet unrepeatable pasta, soup with clams, chicken stew with a creamy coating, also never to be tasted again, and little gem brownies with self-serve espresso.
BEST DISHES -- New England clam chowder; seafood stew; oysters; Jonah crab claws; steamers; fried sole sandwich; crab-and-baccala cake; stuffed brook trout; Chatham cod.
Recommended dishes -- Raw oysters, steamers, Portuguese fish stew, clam chowder, grilled calamari, fried oysters, golden beet and goat cheese timbale, frisée salad with grilled shrimp (special), roasted skate, seared sea scallops, sautéed brook trout, grilled corvina with bacon and chive vinaigrette (special), poached pear, maple crème brûlée, flourless chocolate cake.
Good candidates include clam chowder, beef stew, pea soup, or other fairly chunky soups that will look like they've already been swallowed.
Where to Eat In Mahón, Restaurante La Minerva, Moll de Levant, 87, (34) 971-351-995; fax (34) 971-352-076, on the port is cozy and traditional, featuring seafood, lobster stew, clams and mussels.
Sated with clams and oyster stew, he would emerge upstairs into the main concourse, crane his head backward and blink, as if he somehow expected the dingy ceiling to be transformed back into the glowing vault of his memories.
