Before a restaurant opens, there’s a certain kind of anticipation that develops because of the online renderings that circulate, the whisper campaigns from people who know someone…

The sea isn’t the first thing you see. The octopus is the culprit. Tentacles limp in the afternoon breeze as they are strung up on a thin…

Sometimes, even before you taste the food, you can sense that something is wrong in a restaurant. The soda is flat. The fries are delivered cold, almost…

Even before the door opens completely, you can smell it. Butter, salt, and a slightly briny smell that permeates the walls over time rather than existing in…

The fishing villages appear out of the gray like something from a half-remembered dream at a specific point on the road between Halifax and Lunenburg when the…

On a Tuesday night in Charleston, South Carolina, there is still a line outside Hank’s Seafood that extends past the sidewalk crack where someone planted a flower…

Between the first and second bites, there’s a moment when a really delicious Maryland crab cake subtly challenges your preconceived notions about seafood. Not in a dramatic,…

When you enter a seafood expo, you anticipate seeing the usual suspects: shiny salmon fillets, piles of shrimp on ice, and a few scallop vendors trying their…