Cafe Nostimo

On Tuesday of this week, I visited Cafe Nostimo in Portsmouth, NH. The restaurant was very clean and nice. We had a large group and the service was great as well. I had the Beef Souvlaki (Kabobs), which were excellent. It was served with great pita bread, rice and greek green beans. I'd highly recommend this restaurant.

Bob Chinn's Crabhouse

On Monday in Chicago, I was able to make it to Bob Chinn's Crabhouse, which is quite an experience. The King Crab Legs were very good and the signature garlic rolls were great as well. Chinn's is a great place to visit if you are up in the North suburbs of Chicago. This is a huge restaurant, seating 650 people and the volume of food and drinks they serve are incredible. Here are some of the stats:

• An order leaves the kitchen every 9 seconds


• Chinn's serves 322,400 Mai Tais each year


• 3000 guests visit Chinn's each day


• 1500 pounds of shrimp are eaten weekly


• 500 pounds of garlic are used weekly

Baltimore Restaurant- The Rusty Scupper

This past tuesday, Jim Aiken and I were looking for some good food on the Inner Harbor in Baltimore and across the bay, and as we walked past all of the chain restaurants, I saw the huge sign for The Rusty Scupper . We made our way over to the restaurant and were seated quickly. We ordered coconut butterflied shrimp as an appetizer, which was served with a pepper jelly sauce and they were awesome. They were sold out of the special which was blue softshell crab, so after much scrutiny of the menu (yeah, I know, if you've been out to dinner with me I always take a while to order), I ordered the Seafood Fra Diavolo, which turned out to be an excellent pasta dish packed with seafood and spicy sauce. Jim had the crab cakes, which were also very good. The Rusty Scupper is a great choice if you're spending some time on Baltimore's Inner Harbor.