Headed down to our RI house after an entire month of the place sitting empty—it hadn’t imploded yay (which we knew, thanks to B who has lots of systems in place to oversee it from afar). We left Friday after school pickup and traffic looked awful so we decided to stop midway-ish at the Chieftain Pub for an late lunch/early dinner (linner?) Started with good soda bread with currants, cheeseburger for Spring Onion, burger of some type for B, mussels for me. I should know better than to order winter mussels (small) but the broth was good enough for us to bring home which I’ll repurpose in a pasta dish. I also brought home the largely unneeded/untouched drawn butter because as I said to our server, someone in the kitchen is making this and I can’t bear to throw that out. She totally agreed. Love a restaurant that has proper table lamps in the cozy booths.
We went to excellent Sailing Museum in Newport today. We stopped for lunch beforehand at Midtown Oyster Bar out of convenience (it’s very close to the museum) but it turned out to be ok (we thought it would be a tourist trap). Cheeseboiga again for SO (le sigh), BBQ salmon sandwich for B. Bermuda fish stew for me. I’ve never been to Bermuda so I can’t attest to the “authenticity” of it but hilariously, there was a ramekin of some “sauce,” which I tasted and it was rum. I stirred some into my stew, which our server said is the intention but that some customers just used it as a shooter. Ah, to be young again in Newport! lol. My spicy clam ceviche was the winner today. Five delightful and refreshing bites of clam, wakame, pickled radish, cilantro—our sever was delighted we ordered this dish, telling us that it was a revelation for him.
After the museum, we thought we were headed back to the house but it was early, so I suggested Pivotal Brewing in Bristol, which was on our way. Awesome space and the campus is rife with food businesses, including Brick Pizza and Borealis Coffee in gorgeous mill buildings. But as we were making our way there, I saw old school places like Andrade’s Seafood market and various other restaurants and packies. We obviously need to delve into Bristol. Pivotal is in a beautiful space, good beers. They had a makers mart and a folk singer today and good beer (loved the soul fire DIPA). But most important, that had Yahtzee, which kept all of happy.
Some debate about what to do for dinner (once we’re back in our house, it’s hard to leave again) so we decided against pizza at Brick or at our local place, Moving Dough, and went with Mexican at Nacho Mamma’s. The name makes us laugh but the food is good, especially for a place like Barrington. Chicken quesadilla with good-looking rice and beans for SO, seriously spicy Philly cheesesteak burrito for B. I’m not hungry yet. Leftovers for me.
