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providence needs a clam shack
11:25AM ON
06/20/2008
BY
Beth Comery
I don’t believe I am alone in this. How many times have you picked up visitors at the airport and before you are even at the baggage claim someone is saying “I want some seafood.” And you know they don’t mean Chilean sea bass on linen table cloths, but rather some place with fry-o-laters, picnic tables and a view of the water. With all these charettes and consultants from Boston has anyone even brought this up? Enough with the condos, bike paths and heritage museums… we demand fried food and lots of it! (A shore dinner hall would be acceptable.)
Yesterday I went to Blount Clam Shack on Water Street in Warren, and this is exactly what I have in mind. It’s right on the Warren River looking south to the ocean. You can sit in the sun or under the tent, between a marina and the seafood company itself, and it’s a little dangerous which I like because then people are forced to watch their children. The food was great. (This chunky lobster roll was $20. My whole-belly clams were $11. It’s closed Tuesdays.)
I am still a big fan of Horton’s Seafood in East Providence. It has zero view but the interior decor would appear to be unchanged since 1957 — in other words — perfect. They have lots of fried everything. And I recently ate at Aunt Carrie’s on the water in Narragansett where the clam cakes were big and chewy, and fried crispy, maybe my favorite. The restaurant has not been modernized the least bit and the view is unbeatable. But why… WHY… do I have to leave town for a clam cake?
June 20th, 2008 at 6:24PM
Roberts Says:
I love Hortons, and that place in Tiverton (something with an ‘e’ me thinks).
No doubt a place in Providence (preferably with a view of the water) would do outstanding business, though.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 3:56PM
cynthia ferguson Says:
Evelyn’s.
And, yes, we definitely need a clam shack and/or a lobster-in-the-rough place here in Providence. And also a place like the old Tweet’s, which mixes our Italian heritage with our seafood — in other words, spaghetti and clam sauce by the pound served family style. I’m hoping that when we open up the waterfront with the moving of 195, these will be the kind of places that move in. I love our wonderful restaurants, but we need more joints, especaily those with a local flavor.
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