New Hampshire and Maine Homes and Condos

Do you love SEAFOOD??   If so, then you would have really enjoyed this 4 day seafood-packed dining adventure!!

One of my sisters, Karen, came to visit me about a week ago.  She went to high school here in Portsmouth NH, so this was a bit of a memory-tour as well, as she hadn't been back here to visit in a good number of years.  Plus, she wanted to see my 'new' home, which she'd only seen pictures of.

So, we picked her up at the Manchester NH Airport, and pulled a great surprise visit off on another of my sisters, Dale, who lives with her family in Manchester,  about 45 minutes west of me.  We just showed up, and Karen walked in the door a couple minutes later, and stunned Dale.  Needless to say we had great fun with that little surprise!

Karen ordered grilled salmon with some kind of pineapple barbecue sauce, and Dale ordered catfish fingers.  Karen ate her salmon, as well as some of the catfish fingers.  The rest of us had yummy barbecue ribs - it would never occur to us to order fish in a rib place, but they did, and they said it was delicious.  We'll take their word for it.....

Our next delicious fresh native seafood lunch was at the historic Wentworth By The Sea Hotel in New Castle NH.  This hotel is on the National Historic Properties Registry, and is just absolutely stunning inside.  The restoration that was done a few years back is just glorious.  They have a lovely restaurant overlooking the island out over to Portsmouth, and their menu is wonderful. 

They have just about THE best lobster roll in the whole Seacoast area!  None of the fillers you usually find in most lobter rolls!!  This one is just chock full of fresh lobster meat and just a tiny touch of mayonnaise.  It's served with handcut french fries, and an apple cabbage cole slaw.  The lobster roll is one of our New England frankfurter rolls, grilled with a touch of butter on the outside, and then packed with all this lobster.  There's so much lobster in this roll that you have to eat some of it with your fork just so you can then pick it up and eat it as a sandwich.  They bring out a small dish of hot drawn butter in case you want to drizzle it over the lobster - heavenly!! 

This was the last day of her visit, so my sister, Dale and her family, came over that night for dinner so they could see her before she flew back home to Ohio.  We decided to head to Newick's Seafood Restaurant in Dover NH for this meal.

Karen had a seafood sampler platter that had fried baby shrimp, fried scallops, fried clams, and fried haddock nuggets on it.  I had a fried native shrimp and haddock nugget combo plate.  Everyone had some kind of combination of all of that as well.  The only thing missing during that meal was the actual plain boiled or steamed lobster!

If you're planning a visit here to the Portsmouth New Hampshire areas, make sure to enjoy some of our wonderful native seafood.  I can tell you, once you've eaten it here fresh off the boats, frozen fish somewhere else just won't cut it any more!!  Our local commercial fishing piers here supply seafood for places the world over......make sure you come check out our local seafood for yourself!!

                                                

For tips and suggestions on where the locals eat, just give me a call or send me an email - you won't be disappointed!  And if you're thinking of making this great area your home, I'm at your service.......

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