Mary Wells | 08/17/2009 11:00 pm
Mary Wells on Fat Duck, Red Dog Saloon and Strangelove
In response to: What is your favorite restaurant in the entire world? If you could visit it today, what would you order?
I have traveled to many places for many years and I am always falling in love with new restaurants wherever I go.
Fat Duck in England is supposed to be the best restaurant in the world today (according to chefs) so when I go to England this fall I will check it out and tell you about it. Right now I am in Alaska on Strangelove and my chef is clearly the best chef I have experienced so far in Alaska. There is a place popular with locals called the Red Dog Saloon that I will check out as I have heard edgy, colorful stories I will share — if they are true. Yesterday we caught one of the largest halibuts the fishermen who took us fishing had seen. It took almost two hours to bring him in.
I am not big on killing anything but I eat fish and am steeling myself to see so many of them flapping in our galley.
Fat Duck in England is supposed to be the best restaurant in the world today (according to chefs) so when I go to England this fall I will check it out and tell you about it. Right now I am in Alaska on Strangelove and my chef is clearly the best chef I have experienced so far in Alaska. There is a place popular with locals called the Red Dog Saloon that I will check out as I have heard edgy, colorful stories I will share — if they are true. Yesterday we caught one of the largest halibuts the fishermen who took us fishing had seen. It took almost two hours to bring him in.
I am not big on killing anything but I eat fish and am steeling myself to see so many of them flapping in our galley.
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Mary,
Can you see Russia from your boat? lol
Mary,
My favorite —fresh caught lobster from Young’s in Belfast, Maine.
You can watch the lobstermen come in and unload their catch into huge salt water vats. The servers boil them in net bags along with corn on the cob, then they slap them on the counter and hack at them with huge knives, and you eat them sitting at a picnic table enjoying the sunset over Penobscot Bay. Lobster doesn’t get any better than this.
Alaska — I’ve never been but it’s on my short list.