We picked the Ocean Edge Hotel in Belfast because of its attached restaurant with a wide range of fish focussed food. And what an excellent menu it had. The chef Justin Connor is well known in the region for the quality of his food.
Drew started with a lobster stew, that was on the specials list not the main menu. It was a great soup with large chunks of vegetables as well as large chunks of lobster. I opted for Potato skins, these, rather than being skins, were really half potatoes covered with pepper jack cheese and bacon.
For our main course Drew opted for Fresh Scallops with coleslaw, tarter sauce and fries. These were plump, sweet scallops, the best we have had so far this holiday. I went for the main dish – Boiled Maine Lobster. The people of Maine argue that Maine has the best lobster in the world. I would not dispute them. This specimen came out looking so brightly red, I was told that the redder they are when cooked the fresher they are, that it looked as if it had been painted. It was easy to peel (for easier than the last one I had in Prince Edward Island) and the meat was delicious. It was served with a backed potato and some courgettes and pumpkin – char-grilled. Drew decided to have a dessert and opted for Carrot Cake which was lightly spiced and had a sweet cream cheese topping – it went down really well.
The Ocean Edge is one of those hotels which does complimentary breakfast. In addition to the usual cereals, bagels and crumpets they also had sausage patties and eggs – so you could make your own sausage and egg muffin, or sausage and egg bagel – Drew had the first and I had the second. They also had a waffle iron – so we tried it out. The machine had clear instructions and even made a beep when the waffle was done.
After breakfast we made an early start (7.30) for our visit to Boston.
I'm thinking that your Flickr uploads are about 24 hours ahead of the blog post. I'm looking at the pics and am getting the story a day early!
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ReplyDeleteI've been driving for the last three days, so haven't had time to write the story on the iPad in the car. So I have three days to catch-up on, should have them done tomorrow, but the photos are up to date as of now :-)
Whats news regardng the weather and your flight back?
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ReplyDeleteyes, Hurricane Irene caught us here. They cancelled the flight yesterday evening our time. So now waiting for Virgin to get back to us.
Spending the next period indoors, so will update the blog until the electric outage they expect hits, around 2.00 a.m. our time.