Although I live close by to Duxbury, home of the world famous Island Creek Oysters, I was not able to get to the newly opened Raw Bar at Island Creek Oyster Farm last season. To celebrate Father’s Day this year, I knew that I wanted this to be my destination. Friends described to me how […]
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Mayflower Brewing Company Since moving to Plymouth, Massachusetts, I have enjoyed tremendously visiting Mayflower Brewing Company. I always liked their ties to local history with the owner being a descendant of Mayflower passenger, John Alden. As the beer landscape has evolved, so has Mayflower. With offerings such as the New World IPA, 399 (next year’s
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This is the first part of Backyard Road Trips archives from the former site: www.backyardroadtrips.wordpress.com My mind has been so clouded with phrases such as unfiltered, New England style, sour and imperial that when a bottle adorned with the silhouette of a bear arrived in my fridge, I almost shed a tear. Oh how I
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Stumbling onto the unexpected is one of the pure joys of travel. The word unexpected sums up my recent backyard road trip to Biddeford, Maine. On my way up to Portland, I had wanted to stop for breakfast or lunch (I guess that’s called brunch) at Biscuits and Company in Biddeford. Unlike many of the
Friends recommended Ella’s Wood Burning Oven in Wareham, Massachusetts, years ago. Last week I was finally able to get there, and I wish I had earlier because the food was truly delicious. Ella’s chef/owner, Marc Swierkowski, was the head chef at the Crane Brook Restaurant and Tea Room in Carver which was universally lauded. Crane
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Family-friendly Brewery Backyard Road Trip! The proliferation of breweries in New England these days means that any time that there is a child-centric activity, there will be a brewery close by! That’s great news for us parents. (Although, my three and a half-year-old son seems to get as excited by the prospect of the brewery
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To most Vineyard bound tourists, Woods Hole is simply the journey and not the destination. Woods Hole is the location of the most popular ferry terminal (Steamship Authority) to the island. Cars queue up in line waiting for the ferry’s door to open, while others frantically chew their nails in hopes of catching that elusive
The Best of Sandwich and Mashpee Cape Cod is a funny place, the towns closest to the mainland are known as the “Upper Cape” and the ones furthest away are part of the “Outer Cape”, in between is the Mid-Cape and the Lower Cape. This backyard road trip is closest to home, it’s an Upper
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Exhibit “A” Brewing Company: A Road Trip To-Go I had every intention to describe in detail the actual brewery space of Exhibit “A” Brewing Company, the tanks, the ceiling, the brewing process. With every expectation comes a reality. By the time I arrived at Exhibit “A” Brewing in Framingham, Massachusetts, my son was fast asleep
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If you think a blind IPA taste test is a way for a few friends to get together on a Sunday and enjoy a few beers, you are wrong. This is science at its finest. It is the reason why the scientific method is taught in biology classes. To quote Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) in
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