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Woodman's of Essex sign. Woodman's of Essex is a seafood restaurant in Essex, Massachusetts (approximately 26 miles (42 km) north of Boston).A local favorite, [1] it is also known internationally for its fried clams and New England clam bakes. [2]
1865 menu with fried clams and oysters. Fried clams are mentioned as early as 1840, [8] and are listed on an 1865 menu from the Parker House hotel. How exactly they were prepared is unclear; the 1865 menu offers both "oysters—fried" and "oysters—fried in batter", but only "fried clams". [9] Nineteenth-century American cookbooks describe ...
Lawrence "Chubby" Woodman was an entrepreneur and restaurant owner who legend has it invented the fried clam. [1] He opened Woodman's of Essex, first as a clam shack, with his wife Bessie on Main Street in Essex, Massachusetts and sold freshly dug steamer clams as well as ice cream and homemade potato chips.
Ipswich, Massachusetts What to order: Fried clams. Along Massachusetts Route 133, known as the "Clam Highway," you'll stumble upon the Clam Box of Ipswich about 30 miles north of Boston in ...
They offered fish and chips, fried clams, fried shrimp, and fried scallops, served on paper plates while the customers sat at picnic tables. [13] In 1975, the restaurant expanded with the opening of a more traditional outlet at the site of the former S.S. Pierce building in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. [14]
The first Piccadilly Pub restaurant was opened by William C. Martin in 1973 in the town of Westborough, Massachusetts. The chain offered a menu of American cuisine, with particular emphasis on seafood such as fish and chips, New England clam chowder, fried clams, lobster, scallops, and shrimp.
It featured fried clams, baked beans, chicken pot pies, frankfurters, ice cream, and soft drinks. The first Howard Johnson's restaurant received a tremendous boost in 1929, owing to an unusual set of circumstances: Malcolm Nichols, the mayor of nearby Boston, banned the production of Eugene O'Neill's play, Strange Interlude in Boston.
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