Moby Dick's (Cape Cod, Massachusets)

Route 6
Wellfleet, MA 02667
(508) 349-9797
mobydicksrestaurant.comNext door to the restaurant is Moby Dick's gift shop. Tourists can buy their t-shirts and if they then send in a photograph of them wearing the shirt, the restaurant will frame it and post it on the wall. So all over the restaurant, there are pictures of Paris, Arizona, Italy, Chicago, etc. with people posing with the Moby Dick's t-shirt.

I ordered just lobster and corn. I don't think my stomach could handle the clambake. I just learned that clams are called steamers here in Cape Cod. My 1.5 lb fresh lobstah with drawn butter and lemon wedge. Nothing but fresh, supple lobster meat. It also came with corn, but really, lobster is all I need.

Toscanini's Ice Cream & Coffee (Boston)

Central Square
899 Main Street
Cambridge, MA
617-491-5877
http://www.tosci.com/

"The best ice cream in the world" - New York Times. With praise like that, we had to find out for ourselves whether or not it was the best in the world. We have yet to travel around the world, so I don't know if we would be qualified to back this claim. Toscanini's is located very close to MIT and Harvard. All of these geeks and geniuses can't be wrong. I think our IQ raised a point just being in this area.
We each ordered a double scoop of ice cream so that we could try a variety of flavor samplings. Toscanini's flavors are not your normal Rite-Aid flavors (nothing against Rite-Aid), but offers unique and strange flavor combinations. On the right is the blueberry and orange flavor and underneath it is ginger snap molasses. On the left is a chocolate and coconut combination and underneath that is hazelnut coffee. We both really enjoyed the flavors that we sampled that night. The ice cream was not as texturally smooth as I imagined it to be. This may be due to the fact that we just had some fantastic gelato at Il Laboratorio Del Gelato in New York and was comparing gelato to ice cream. Overall, the ice cream was very, very good. I don't know about "best ice cream in the world" good, but very good nonetheless.

Neptune Oyster (Boston, MA)

63 Salem St
Boston, MA 02113 (617) 742-3474
neptuneoyster.com

While walking Boston's Freedom Trail and seeing the historical sites, we stopped by Neptune Oyster, tucked in the streets of the North End.


Here's the many varieties of oysters they had to offer...each having its own descriptionThe shucker at work...Shown here, from the left of the lemon slice: Wellfleet, Island Creek, Ninigret, St. Simon, Kumomoto, and the Fanny Bay...Served with cocktail sauce and mignonette, which is vinegar, white wine and shallots. I enjoyed slurping my oysters with the cocktail sauce instead of the mignonette. The white wine in it was a bit overpowering for me. My favorite to this day is the classic mignonette from Hog Island that has cilantro, shallots and rice vinegar. My favorite was the Ninigert... it had a very nice sweet finish to it. If you look closely at the very top oyster in the picture, you will see that it's really two oysters on two connected shells. I guess they gave me a mutated one, but it still tasted good.

Clam Box (Ipswich, Massachusetts)

246 High St
Ipswich, MA 01938
(978) 356-9707

All over New England are seafood shacks with fried everything - fried clams, fried shrimp, fried clams, fried mussels, etc. We read that the Clam Box has the best fried clams...We must try then! On the way to Maine, we stopped by this restaurant, which is shaped like a ... you guessed it..clam box, the trapezoidal container in which fried-clams-to-go are customarily served. This roadside attraction dates back some 60 years. We ordered at the window, alongside the newspaper clippings and article reviews that rave about the Clam Box. There's even a photograph of Andy Garcia when he visited here. There's nice seating inside and they also have outdoor picnic tables.
We ordered the 3-Way Combo which includes fried clams, fried scallops, and fried shrimp...served with cole slaw, french fries, and biscuits ($21.25). The fried clams were soft and very slightly chewy. I'm not very used to the idea though of the long tail extending from the clam's body. It was still tasty nevertheless. The scallops though were very good and juicy. We shared this among 3 people and just barely finished. I love fried foods and ketchup, but I can handle only so much of fried foods.