By accident we saw an episode on the food channel where they visited a particular restaurant here, and it looked so good we decided to visit. On the website there were no opening hours etc, so when we arrived we found out that the place had closed for the season.
The friendly fish monger next door suggested we visit Alisson's in town instead. It turned out to be a great suggestion, the food was excellent!
And Simone bought half the dog shop down the street, so it was a good afternoon all around.
Clam chowder - best one so far (out of two I tried).
My seafood pasta. The scallops were huge and plumpy delicious and there was plenty of seafood, not just a token amount to justify the name of the dish.
Simone's lobster roll and sweet potato fries.
Blueberry pie.
Pretty much the only reason to go to Portland, Maine was because I found out that the world's only cryptozoology museum was based there. Yeah I know, people laugh when they hear about bigfoot etc, but in its basic form, cryptozoology is simply the study of animals that have not been studied by science due to a lack of species sample. More info about the museum here.
It was an interesting, albeit small museum. One of the good things was that they clearly divide the exhibits into proper and fake. The fakes of course give the field a bad name. The museum's curator, Loren Coleman, was there to welcome us and give us a bit of information about all the exhibits.
Steve Irwin and Indi :)
Fake merman
Another fake merman
After the museum we visited the bug lighthouse too. It was getting to below zero C so we didn't do any walking around.
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