![]() ![]() The menu is painted on a fence and the restaurant provided nothing but great food and pleasant atmosphere. Patrons sit on tree stumps around tables that were once wire spools (really). Everything is outdoors the food prep, cooking and dining. "The Place" in Guilford, CT has been in business since 1971 and I've never seen it busier. While visiting relatives in my former home state, we went out of our way to visit one of the finest Connecticut shoreline "must visit" restaurants and hands-down best place for grilled lobster anywhere. This brings me to original subject, great BBQ. New Englander's use shellfish rather than pork (plus seaweed and local hardwood), but otherwise it's very similar. For example, a "clambake" is nothing less than barbacoa, the most ancient form of barbecue. ![]() New Englanders barbecue all the time, they just have other names for it. It's not their fault really, they just don't know the nomenclature. ![]() Many New Englanders and New Yorkers (myself included, before being duly initiated) will say "barbecue" when they really mean grilling hamburgers and dogs. In fact, not surprising when you consider what barbecue really is. ![]()
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