A Monctonian in Portsmouth – part 1
Sunday, March 15th, 2009As you can tell I have not been very interactive in the last few months. I’ve been travelling on a weekly basis and am a little out of touch with the Moncton life. This saddens me a little since I enjoy this city very much.
Just to give you an idea of how much travelling I’ve been doing. Since last March I have 160 flights segments. Of course I’ve reached Air Canada’s top tier(Super Elite) and have access to the Maple Leaf Lounge.
I work out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Portsmouth is an historical little city about 1 hour north of Boston. With a population of about 35000 inhabitants it has all the amenities one would want. A quiet little town that doubles in size during the tourist season. From Moncton take the TCH #2 and follow until exit 187 in Woodstock. Follow highway 95 to Portsmouth.
This small port city has is very charming and has everything a tourist/visitor would want, especially restaurants.
One restaurant that we visit on almost a weekly basis is Jumpin’ Jay’s Fish Cafe. If I were in restoration I would definitely open a restaurant like this in Moncton. Their menu consists of two sections. The blue menu and the red menu. The blue menu is what you’d expect in most seafood restaurants with a very high level of quality. The red menu which is the most interesting includes “Catch of the day” with selections such as Fresh Tuna, Mahi Mahi and sometimes even Wild Atlantic Salmon. Yes you read it right they have wild salmon probably from the Miramichi river.
Whatever you choose you can be certain it will be delicious and perfectly prepared. The highlight of our week is on Tuesday’s when they have an event called “Shuck for a buck”. They have a selection of oysters from all along the east coast for 1 dollar a shuck. Now that is hard to beat.
The restaurants in Portsmouth are plentiful. I’ll list a few that I’ve visited regularly.
- Paddy’s Bar and Grill -> Great pub food – try their seafood stuffed haddock
- Portsmouth Brewery –> Great local beers
- Portsmouth Gas Light –> Excellent Maple Short ribs
- Agave –> Mexican food that even a Contreras likes
- Brazo –> Latin American food to die for
- and many more….
I’ll write some more on later posts about the nice little city of Portsmouth.
Ciao for now.