A trip to Boston to visit the USS Constitution Museum, New England Aquarium or New England Holocaust Memorial is greatly enhanced with a trip to an area restaurant to sample one of the local favorites--fried clams. Numerous places in Boston offer fried clam appetizers, sandwiches and plates in addition to a wide variety of seafood dishes featuring oysters, lobster and freshly-caught fish, such as salmon, sea bass and Atlantic cod. After a meal, visitors might want to stop by one of the area's nightlife venues, such as 21st Amendment, Avalon or Beantown Pub.
Neptune Oyster upscale restaurant is located on Salem Street, near the Paul Revere House. The restaurant offers fried clam appetizers served with tartar sauce and lemon. Additional menu items include appetizers, such as seared Hudson Valley fois gras, clam chowder and Galician white anchovies, and salads, such as baby octopus salad and blue crab salad. Lunch and dinner entrees include roasted wild-striped bass, sautéed salmon, Maine lobster rolls and seared scallops. The restaurant also presents a raw bar menu that includes both East and West Coast oysters, Littleneck clams, lobster, crab claws and razor clams.
Neptune Oyster
63 Salem Street
Boston, MA 02110
617-742-3474
neptuneoyster.com
Union Oyster House, the oldest continuous service restaurant in the United States, opened its doors in 1826. The restaurant is located on Union Street in downtown Boston, near Faneuil Hall Marketplace. The casual restaurant offers fried clams plates and rolls and includes fried clams in combination fried seafood platters that also feature fish, oysters, scallops, calamari and shrimp. Additional lunch menu items include seafood salad wraps, pan-seared crab cakes, fish chowder and seafood stew. Dinner menu selections include steamed mussels, oysters Rockefeller, fried sea scallops, broiled salmon filet, boiled lobster and mushroom ravioli. Dessert menu items include house-made gingerbread, Boston cream pie and chocolate lava cake.
Union Oyster House
41 Union Street
Boston, MA 02110
617-227-2750
unionoysterhouse.com
Atlantic Fish Company, an upscale restaurant that opened in 1978, is located on Boylston Street, near the Boston Public Library. The restaurant offers fried whole-bellied clams appetizers, sandwiches and platters. Additional lunch menu items include toasted goat cheese salad, lobster ravioli, shrimp scampi, jumbo lump crab cake melt and char-broiled hamburgers. Dinner menu selections include sautéed Atlantic cod, pan-seared sea bass, linguine with clam sauce, barbecue-glazed salmon and 10 oz. filet mignon. The restaurant also hosts Saturday and Sunday brunches that include menu items, such as eggs Benedict, blueberry pancakes, smoked salmon bagels and spinach and shrimp frittatas.
Atlantic Fish Company
761 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
617-267-4000
atlanticfishco.com
