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Saffron and King's treats

On the first Saturday of every month through the end of summer, Saffron offers authentic Thai street-foods on the patio from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. including Thai crepes filled with shrimp or chicken and Thai-style oyster pancakes (one of my happiest Bangkok food-memories -- eaten on a back-street in a fairly crummy neighborhood and OH so good!).

King’s Seafood Co. restaurants now let you BYO wine with no corkage charges. So pull out that Batard-Montrachet you’ve been saving before it goes brown to bring to their May-July 4 Maine lobster dinners (right in season, with the bugs at their very best.!) Lobsters run from under $24 for 1 pound to mid-$40s for three (bigger than that, they ain't no goldurned use). There are cheaper in town on "loss leader" weekly specials at some restaurants that I've tried (and found wanting. Maybe they spent too long in the lobster pound, or were boiled instead of steamed, or came from our nation's mortal enemy, Canada...) . When it comes to real Maine lobster, seems like you pretty much get what you pay for. :(On the other hand, I wouldn't invest in one of the costly, huge sea-monsters sold at The Palm -- too big to be tender. Those guys would rather eat you,.)

Milles Fleurs is getting more democratic by the day, and I don't mean politically. The bar menu ($3 - $15) is on tap from 3 until 11 pm daily, so you can graze like the rich, pay like the middle class.

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On the first Saturday of every month through the end of summer, Saffron offers authentic Thai street-foods on the patio from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. including Thai crepes filled with shrimp or chicken and Thai-style oyster pancakes (one of my happiest Bangkok food-memories -- eaten on a back-street in a fairly crummy neighborhood and OH so good!).

King’s Seafood Co. restaurants now let you BYO wine with no corkage charges. So pull out that Batard-Montrachet you’ve been saving before it goes brown to bring to their May-July 4 Maine lobster dinners (right in season, with the bugs at their very best.!) Lobsters run from under $24 for 1 pound to mid-$40s for three (bigger than that, they ain't no goldurned use). There are cheaper in town on "loss leader" weekly specials at some restaurants that I've tried (and found wanting. Maybe they spent too long in the lobster pound, or were boiled instead of steamed, or came from our nation's mortal enemy, Canada...) . When it comes to real Maine lobster, seems like you pretty much get what you pay for. :(On the other hand, I wouldn't invest in one of the costly, huge sea-monsters sold at The Palm -- too big to be tender. Those guys would rather eat you,.)

Milles Fleurs is getting more democratic by the day, and I don't mean politically. The bar menu ($3 - $15) is on tap from 3 until 11 pm daily, so you can graze like the rich, pay like the middle class.

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