New England Travel and Vacation Gazette and Other Wicked Good Content

Article and photo by Eric H. Some elitist dining snobs say that Durgin Park in Boston, MA, is a dinosaur, a crass tourist attraction that pales in comparison to other Boston restaurants where you can eat trendy food in small portions at high prices. Then again, many New Englanders love historic restaurants where management finds no reason to change their traditional New England menus if people keep coming back in crowds for more regional fare, generation after generation. Durgin Park has been around since the early 1800s, features communal seatings at long tables and keeps the somewhat annoying but endearing tradition of hiring brusque, somewhat rude waitresses -- although it's nowhere near as pronounced as in previous generations. For those who love clam chowder, baked, stuffed and steamed lobster, New England clambakes (clam chowder, lobster, steamers, boiled potato, and corn on the cob), roasted native turkey and chicken, prime rib, Yankee pot roast, fresh Boston schrod, Boston ...