The Poconos is not a town or city, but actually a mountain region in the northeastern portion of Pennsylvania and ecompasses everal counties and bits and pieces of others, such as Wayne, Carbon, Pike and Monroe counties. Just as the Pocono area has a wealth of attractions and activities, they many fine dining establishments as well. The region boasts some fine seafood retaurants where the catch-of-the-day is delivered fresh.
Smugglers Cove Restaurant has been been in the seafood business for over 25 years. They sell only the freshest seafood delivered from the Philadelphia fish market three times a week. For lunch start off with a bowl of homemade seafood gumbo, followed by a New England shrimp and lobster salad. If you are still hungry, opt for a fried shrimp platter, crab cakes, lobster tail or fresh catch of the day prepared with a tropical sauce, Cajun spices or tequila lime butter. All lunch platters are served with a vegetable, choice of potato, and rolls. The dinner menu boasts appitizers like the coconut shrimp with berry berry sauce, oysters on the half shell and shrimp cocktail. Delicious main entrees include surf and turf which includes a choice of rib eye, filet mignon, or New York strip and a lobster, a half-pound of king crab legs, or a pound of snow crab. Or you can choose from a broied seafood combination platter, seafood gumbo Louisiana-style or lobster. Dinner entrees are paired with fresh baked bread, choice of salad, and choice of one side dish.
Smugglers Cove Restaurant
Route 611
Tannersville, PA 18372
570-629-2277
smugglerscove.net/
Originally a casual place for people to stop to get ice cream and play miniature golf back in the '50s and '60s, this restaurant has had a few different names before opening as The Boat House in 1999. Opened year round, families can enjoy the casual ambiance while watching breathtaking sunsets on Lake Wallenpaupack. While The Boat House serves American fare such as barbecued ribs, chicken Florentine, and Yankee pot roast, the bulk of the menu centers on seafood. Diners can begin their meals with a bowl of seafood bisque and a pepper-grilled tuna salad. A wealth of seafood appetizers are available from calamari and Maryland-style shrimp, to little neck clams and crab dip. Feast on bourbon-glazed salmon, Maryland-style crab cakes, Chilean sea bass, fried jumbo shrimp, or honey- and-lime glazed scallops. Meals are served with bread, salad, vegetable of the day, and a choice of baked or mashed potato, french fries, macaroni salad or cole slaw.
The Boat House Restaurant
Rt. 507
Lake Wallenpaupack
Hawley PA 18428
570-226-5027
the-boathouse-restaurant.com
Red Lobster is a national restaurant chain serving fresh seafood at reasonable prices. For your dinner, you can expect the seafood to be fresh and never frozen. Fishermen remove the fish from the water and immediately put it on ice and send it to Red Lobsters distribution center and then to the local restaurant. Hearty warm cheese biscuits and fresh crisp salads begin the experience. Then create your own shrimp special by choosing from crab and seafood stuff shrimp, barbecued bacon-wrapped shrimp, garlic cream shrimp, or pecan-crusted shrimp. Fresh fish comes prepared on the wood-fire grill, oven-broiled or blackened in half or full portions. Selections vary from day-to-day and can include Atlantic salmon, tilapia, rainbow trout, cod, and Gulf snapper. Entrees come with a salad, a side dish, and cheddar cheese biscuits. Look for other tasty specials that are offered for a limited time and vary throughout the year. Lunch and dinner available.
Red Lobster
3588 Rt. 611
Stroudsburg, PA 18360
570-421-2743
redlobster.com
