Today, before I headed to Narragansett, RI for my surfing lesson, I went to the town of Attleborough first for some breakfast. I was hoping to use my Groupon at Cafe Romano in town, but as it turned out, they were closed for the Independence Day holidays, so I ended up going to
Morin's Hometown Bar and Grille instead.
A nondescript bar-restaurant, they
were few people this time of the morning, so I quickly got down to ordering a Hot Chocolate, and the Portuguese French Toast (Portuguese Sweet Bread with cinnamon egg batter and grilled to golden brown). |
| Hot Chocolate |
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| Portuguese French Toast |
Both dishes weren't too bad, although I do not like cinnamon much, but the toast did not have much of its taste.
From here, I spent a little time checking out a few places in town
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Old Attleborough High School,
135 County Street |
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Larson Senior Center,
25 South Main Street |
before heading out to Narragansett, RI. The blog entry about my first surfing experience can be found here.
After my surfing lesson, I headed to the North End area in Boston for an Italian lunch at Ristorante Villa Francesca. The decor is pretty nice in itself, 
while the food I got namely the Mozzarella Corozza, an appetizer, and the Affogato (Vanilla Ice Cream drowned in Expresso Coffee) for dessert, were excellent as well. |
| Mozzarella Corozza |
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| Affogato |
Another good Italian restaurant in the North End.
While waiting for my mini-speedboat ride with Boston Harbor Mini Speedboats to start, I decided to walk around, visiting several fountains in the area,
I was still hungry, so I decided to check out Lanta Asian Cuisine, a small hole in the wall place in the Financial District area, where I got the Crazy Rolls (Shrimp, lettuce, carrots, cucumber, bean sprouts, basil leaves and rice vermicelli rolled up in soft spring roll skin then fried in tempura style topped with peanut sauce) and a Thai Iced Tea, which were not too bad but nothing special.Finally, it was time to try driving a speedboat for the first time. After meeting up with my friend, we headed to the small boathouse located at the India Wharf Marina, where after signing waivers, it was time to get into our boats.The boat controls were pretty simple, with a steering wheel for direction control, and a gearbox to control how fast forward or in reverse I could go, with Neutral in the center to stop.
When we were ready, we slowly headed out toward the Fort Point Channel in a straight line as we were within the no-wake zone in the Boston Harbor, so we could not go too fast.
While here, we managed to catch sight of the Northern Avenue Bridge being turned to allow a boat through.
From here, we headed out to open water, passing by a green buoy that indicated the end of the no wake zone, upon which we were allowed to go full throttle.
The feeling of going full speed in a speedboat was extremely exhilarating for my friend and I, although after being airborne at times, landing back on the water surface was like landing on a hard flat surface, and at times it felt like the boat would get tipped over by the waves. My friend got scared and I had to brake often to calm things down a little, especially when other speedboats were nearby, before resuming again. We headed all the way to the
JFK Library and Museum before heading back, passing by a monument beside the
Hyatt Boston Harbor.
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Monument,
~101 Harborside Drive |
After finally arriving back at the starting point, my friend and I headed to dinner at
Legal Seafoods Long Wharf nearby.
We got a whole series of appetizers, namely the Gazpacho for soup, a dozen Glidden
Point Oysters, the Smoked Salmon (served chilled with homemade toasted brioche), the Blackened Raw Tuna* “Sashimi” (pan seared and sliced with sesame chili vinaigrette, seaweed salad and wasabi), on top of getting the Sorbet and Fruit (blood orange sorbet, mixed berries, peach mango syrup, almond cookie) for dessert. |
| Gazpacho |
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| Glidden Point Oysters |
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| Smoked Salmon |
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| Blackened Raw Tuna Sashimi |
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| Sorbet and Fruit |
Of all the dishes, only the Gazpacho was a little not to my taste, mainly because of all the onions and peppers in it which I am not a fan of, otherwise it was a delicious meal, but thankfully not filling as I had another dinner to go to.
After bidding my friend farewell for the day, I went to meet my other group of friends, whereupon we decided to go to the first open restaurant we came upon, which happened to be
Kayuga, which I have been to
in the past.
I got the Sansai Udon (Thick wheat noodles in soup with mountain vegetables and seaweed), while my friends got the Haidupbab (Slices of raw fish with fresh vegetable), the Ikura Sake Don (Salmon roe and sliced salmon over a bed of seasoned rice), the College Maki (Crab salad, cucumber, and tempura flake with torched salmon, spicy mayo, and teriyaki sauce covering) and the Sake (salmon) Roll. |
| Sansai Udon |
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| Haidupbab |
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| College Maki and Sake Roll |
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| Ikura Sake Don |
I actually liked all the dishes, although my friends felt the meat wasn't as fresh and so were disappointed. I guess my standards of food quality aren't that high after all.
With that, I finally headed back to my friend's place to crash for the night, with a day of hiking to look forward to tomorrow.
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