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Fore Street in Portland, ME is pretty much a buzz restaurant if ever there was one. Don't go here expecting to improve your street cred. Open since 1996, they were named the sixteenth best restaurant in the U.S. by Gourmet Magazine, and chef-partner Sam Hayward is a James Beard Foundation award winner.

What Fore Street lacks in underground sensibility, it more than makes up for in tastiness. Because the restaurant follows the popular Portland trend of loyalty to what's fresh, in season and local, it's hard to recommend dishes here. The menu is constantly changing. Three courses we recently sampled were a wild mushroom salad with goat cheese, grilled swordfish with summer squash, and a piping hot, sugar coma-inducing apple cobbler. Street cred be damned; it's all about the sugar coma!

The space is casual, with high ceilings and an open kitchen. Reservations are recommended if you want to be a shoo-in for peak dining times, but 1/3 of the tables here are actually reserved for walk-ins. It's pretty easy to visit at 7:00 p.m. on, say, a Sunday, and be seated immediately.]]> djk 2006-09-28T08:50:01-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2006/8/4/93143/45383

Lobster Roll round-up! Before we go any further, we'd like to state for the record that we like our lobster roll cold and with mayo. Want to have it with warm butter? That's for when you do the work yourself and eat the lobster with your hands. Feel free to comment to the contrary, but it will be very difficult to disabuse us of this notion.

Nonetheless, the New York Times Escapes section has seen it fit to go up the coast of Maine in search of lobster roll goodness. In addition to the never-ending debate over how it should be served, they manage to find some interesting spots.

One of note was Red's Eats, in Wiscasset. Open since 1938, they serve the roll with mayo and warm butter on the side, allowing diners to pick their poison. It sounds tasty, even if they are sidestepping the issue. Another tasty locale is Shaw's, in New Harbor, near Darmiscotta. It's far larger than the average clam shack, with a huge (buggy) outdoor deck, but it's still one of the prettiest places to sample a lobster roll in Maine. And they serve it with mayo--the right way.

[Image via Sophie's Mind/Flickr]

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Click here to go straight to the Maine Beach Houses Map

Summer 2006 is on its way. We will be locked in a dark, hot room furiously banging our keyboard; you guys will most likely be at your beach house, or making plans to go to your beach house, or plotting how to crash someone else's beach house.

Every Friday and Sunday, streams of knowledge workers office drones will pull themselves away from their screens and face hours of traffic on 95 or the L.I.E., all for a glorious 36 hours of beach time.  All we ask is you share that decadent life with us.

Send along tips, photos, rumors, gossip, recommendations, locations and traffic busters to our map editors, become a member and comment on the beach house stories below, and add to the Jaunted-Flickr photo pool so your fellow readers can satisfy their voyeuristic summer fantasies. Why? While this may be a lofty goal, we are hoping by the end of the summer, these maps and stories will leave you with a helpful guide to beach housing in the Northeastern U.S., circa 2006.  Whether or not that happens is up to you.

Today, Jaunted launches the first of a three-part series covering the places you'll be this summer if you're vacationing in the Northeast. Yeah, yeah, we know we are seconds away from our first email pointing out a Northeastern bias. You can change that: Write in and let us know worldwide beach house destinations you would like to see us cover next.

We will start things off with Maine today, continue with the Jersey Shore on Thursday, and end with Long Island on Friday. Don't forget your sunblock.]]> AVB 2006-04-26T11:30:02-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2006/4/24/151723/428

Click here to go straight to the Maine Beach Houses Map

Today, Jaunted launches the first of a three-part series covering the places you'll be this summer if you're vacationing in the Northeast. Yeah, yeah, we know we are seconds away from our first email pointing out a Northeastern bias. You can change that:

Send along tips, photos, rumors, gossip, recommendations, locations and traffic busters to our map editors, become a member and comment on the beach house stories below, and add to the Jaunted-Flickr photo pool so your fellow readers can satisfy their voyeuristic summer fantasies. Why? While this may be a lofty goal, we are hoping by the end of the summer, these maps and stories will leave you with a helpful guide to beach housing in the Northeastern U.S., circa 2006.  Whether or not that happens is up to you.

We will start things off with Maine today, continue with the Jersey Shore on Thursday, and end with Long Island on Friday. Don't forget your sunblock.

Maine's shores are old-school when it comes to summering spots, with some families having spent the dog days there for a hundred years or more. While it's not ALL madras pants and lobster rolls, both can be found in abundance if you know where to look.

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