Chow Maine: The Best Restaurants, Cafes, Lobster Shacks & Markets on the Coast, Second Edition [Paperback]

Nancy English (Author)

Book Description

Series: Chow Maine: The Best Restaurants, Cafes, Lobster Shacks & | Publication Date: June 4, 2007

This essential guide to eating along the Maine coast has dozens of new entries and updates in this new second edition.

Ranging from Kittery Point to the Canadian border, this savvy guide to finding diverse dining options in coastal Maine covers everything from high-end restaurants to diner cars and clam shacks. The author also reveals the many interesting and delicious food sources that the rocky coast has to offer, from lobster pounds to bakeries to candy stores and farmer's markets, and more. Find out where to pick your own strawberries, apples, and cranberries. Discover the freshest and most cost-saving fish markets. 50 black & white photographs, index.

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About the Author

Nancy English is the restaurant reviewer for the Maine Sunday Telegram and writes food articles for the Portland Press Herald. She has written articles for Yankee Magazine, Portland Monthly, and the Boston Globe. She is also the co-author of Maine: An Explorer's Guide. She lives in Portland, Maine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Countryman; 2 edition (June 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881507741
• ISBN-13: 978-0881507744
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,071,736 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #45 in Books > Travel > Specialty Travel > Senior Travel

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars To Haute for me, September 4, 2007

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This review is from: Chow Maine: The Best Restaurants, Cafes, Lobster Shacks & Markets on the Coast, Second Edition (Paperback)

I have lived in and have travelled to Maine for over 40 years and have a pretty good idea of both the local restaurant scene and the new commers. However, in a travel format I think the book should have focused more on the wonderful Seafood, Lobster Pounds and Clam shacks dotting the Maine coast. Yes they have some but give too much space to new wave cooking. If you are going to visit Maine I think you want the flavors of Maine, not spaqgheti alla carbonara.
This book missed the mark and excluded several of Main's best well known Lobster Pounds and Clam Shacks.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great guide... detailed... and inclusive a wide range of Maine Coastal Areas, August 15, 2005

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Mark Schoninger (Bath, Maine) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chow Maine: The Best Restaurants, Cafes, Lobster Shacks & Markets on the Coast (Paperback)

Well worth getting for locals and visitors alike spending time on the Maine coast.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lousy guide, September 21, 2007

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Herve-Guillaume (Paris, France) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chow Maine: The Best Restaurants, Cafes, Lobster Shacks & Markets on the Coast, Second Edition (Paperback)

The idea of such a guide is great...but the result is lousy not to say something worse. This is supposed to be a food guide but you have no ratings! in addition you have no signs enabling you to know at first sight if a place mentionned is a luxury restaurant, a casual lobster place or a family hamburger cafe.
In addition to the negative side, no mention of wine list.
Out of the tens and tens of restaurant guides I have bought, this one is certainly the worst.