Back from the DA (Dining Adventure) which, I'm afraid, was a DB (Dining Bust). I had such high hopes - rave Yelp reviews and all. Well, Yelp is filled with trendy idiots who think they know about food, but who just want to be trendy - if the jernt is trendy they love it, no matter what the food is like or how it tastes - either that or they have moronic taste buds. Now, obviously I'm only talking about the items I actually ate - for all I know the rest of their menu may be stellar. But the fried clams were a bust and worse the tartar sauce was horrible - sorry trendy restaurants - tartar sauce is the make or break of fried clams or any fish and chips. I also tried the cocktail sauce and that was horrible, too. It's like they go out of their way to be different, but no one wants "different" tartar sauce or cocktail sauce, sorry. The fries, however, were very good. The "Little Gem" salad wasn't to my liking and should have been. It's basically a wedge - bleu cheese dressing and crumbles, chopped egg, bits of bacon and lettuce. Now, I will profess to not really understanding why, when you load up the wedge with bleu cheese chunks that you'd want bleu cheese dressing on top of that - that's just way too much bleu cheese and it's overwhelming. I'd initially ordered it with 1000-Island dressing but switched, as I thought I should do it the way the restaurant normally does it. However, given the sauces I can't imagine the 1000-Island would have been any good. I am currently sick to my stomach. There will be more about this in the notes, but oh how I wish Howard Johnson's was still here - they knew from fried clams and tartar sauce, as did, once upon a time, the Hamburger Hamlet. And now to Yelp.
