More Roadtrip Deliciousness

Aaaaahhhh....Friday night!

The end of a long week, a nice quiet evening at home.... I can finally start to catch up with stuff.

Stuff to do, to cook, to clean... Thank god Dan was off and took care of business on the homefront while I was toiling away at the office.

We learned interesting things about the house....We had the workers rip the balcony off...we have some water damage, it seems it can be fixed and we won't get a new kitchen counter top for a while...LOL! I'd rather have a front balcony than a new counter top ! Oh well, when you have an older house these things happens.

Now for more pleasant and entertaining things!

 

These pictures are from our friday night meal from the Bell Buoy restaurant in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. It is one of the few year round restaurant.

Now on Tripadvisor it is 50-50 for that place and I can imagine they could get flustered and disorganized in the kitchen in the high season....But I've been there around 10 times and everytime the food is delicious.

Lasagna: great, fried whatever: great, spaghetti : great, roast beef: great.

 

And yes the decor is dated as in 1980's dated but it is mostly clean. I say mostly because it is hard to keep all those knick kancks dust free.

 

So my word of advice would be: don't go in the high season! Instead go and enjoy good, reasonnably priced food in late september or later!

 

Now you know I love watching Diners, Drive-ins and Dives...and we try to visit places featured when we can.

 

This time we had to go back to the Maine diner in Wells, Maine. That place is soooo popular that they give you a beeper! We had to wait 45 minutes for lunch...Another place to really visit in the off season....lol

We first went in February 2011, in a storm of the century, so no line-ups!

 

This is a cup of their famous seafood chowder.

It is amazing. You have more seafood than broth: lobster,clams,scallops, shrimps, totally yummy!

 

Clockwise from the top: The famous lobster pie, coleslaw,mashed potatoes

 

Now the lobster pie is unlike anything you tasted: you have 4 ingredients: lobster, ritz crackers, tomalley (green stuff from lobster) and butter.

It is to die for. Creamy, rich, luxurious.

 

Now I wanted to try the cod cake...and what do you know it comes in the Triple D plate!

 

That was the best salted cod cake we had ever tasted!

It doesn't need the tartar sauce, no siree!

 

And at the bottom of the pic is their delicious cornmeal muffin served with honey whipped butter.

 

The only thing we left was the tartar sauce!

 

We will be back to sample more.

I hope they take reservations!

I might be going thrifting tomorrow!

 

I hope so :)

 

 

 

 

Guy was right!

People are watching triple D and actually planning vacations around spots Guy visited! We do it too, well not exactly....We decided to go to Maine and then researched for some Guy approved diners after.
 We went first to The Maine Diner located on rte 1 in Wells, Maine.

The famous sign. The diner is opened later in summer.

They serve down east fare (?). We actually went there because Guy was besides himself about the seafood chowder and the lobster pie...

I got so excited I nearly forgot to take pics! Yes that is a lobster claw in the chowder. It was one of the best I've ever tasted. It was full of lobster,scallops,shrimps and clams.

This is the lobster pie, their very famous lobster pie. It's lobster in a dish top with Ritz cracker crumbs, butter and tomalley (yep the green stuff inside the lobster). OMG! I had a religious experience! This was lobster at its best, I nearly cried!

We liked it so much we came back for supper after a looonnnggg day of shopping and thrifting. I had the rubben and Dan had an open face roast beef sandwich with mushroom gravy. So,so good. I will remember the rubben for a long time, they cook their own corn beef. I decided to push the bounderies and have dessert...I ordered bread pudding served warm with whipped cream (at our sever's strong suggestion). That was a life altering dessert. I never knew bread pudding could be so tasty! It was a cross with Xmas and bread pudding, full od raisins and spices. OMG!

I wish we could've eaten there more, but we had to go home the next day....

Speaking of Friday we headed south to Kittery for some outlet shopping and Bob's Clam Hut!

Yes that is snow pilled real high!

More snow!

We had clam chowder and fish chowder and Lillian style fried clams. I was surprised to see our order top with a mound of delicious freshly made onion rings! Everything was fresh and delicious! They used recyclable containers and compostable utensils. They have the most attentive young man in the dining room who's always wanting to get you refills, check on your order, get you napkins, it's really nice.

 Those clams were much better than some we had in Old Orchard....We will be back to both those restaurants! I can't wait!

So you see Guy was right! :)