Yum Yum Yum

So, it's been a little more than a day, but Mere and I wanted to make this second post about the delicious cuisine that the area has to offer.  (Disclaimer - not the best to read if you're hungry)

First off, the restaurants.  Less than two miles south of our place is the good Lord's answer to homemade desserts.  The Good Table on Route 77 hands down offers the best, freshly made desserts, complete with seasonal berries from local farms, of any restaurant I can remember in recent history.  It's a crying shame that I have already started accounting for a "Good Table Dessert Fund" in my budget.  It was total luck that we discovered this priceless gem the very first evening we were in Portland.  With delicious local and Greek style entrees, the dessert won't be the only part of the Good Table that adds to my increasing waistband.

If you're looking for the most picturesque seafood lunch or dinner around, you need not look any further than right down the street from The Good Table.  Right outside of Two Lights State Park is the Lobster Shack, voted best lobster roll in the Greater Portland Area (and confirmed by both me and Meredith, who coincidentally has had two of her own).  Only the second day here, I was absolutely shocked at the view that awaited me from the gravel picnic area outside of this little "shack".  Set on a cliff overlooking the foggy New England coastline only scratches the surface in describing the majesty of this delicious eatery.  To top things off, it even has a lighthouse in the background!  I'd eat there even if they served nothing more than old hotdogs.

Although it seems as though Meredith and I have had our fair share of restaurant dinners, we have actually eaten in the majority of our time here.  All of our dinner have been great, but our favorite, and the most documented, would definitely be our own lobster dinner.  Also down the road, near The Good Table, is Alewives Brook Farm, a little local farm that on top of fresh fruits and vegetables, also offers fresh lobster, brought in from the ocean everyday.  As we've done a number of times before, and strongly recommend to any "from away", Meredith and I took this chance to play the "We're from North Carolina and just moved here" card to get a little assistance with picking out our first succulent crustaceans and the people at Alewives were more than helpful.  We left there not only with two 1 and 1/4 pound lobsters, but also with a wide assortment of brochures and manuals to make our first time as easy as possible.  Using the lobster pot that Cindy and Justin (friends from NC) gave us, we turned this experience into a deliciously successful one, but only after sharing a quiet moment after dropping Tom and Fred into the pot (backs down of course).  Needless to say, that'll be the last time that we name our next meal.

Well, aside from some delicious ice cream and pizza, that about sums up the food part of our attempts to catch everyone up to where we are now.  Stay tuned (if you wish) for our next installment, where we'll actually try to cover the fun things that we've already had the chance to do.  Until next time, Breathe Easy.