The American restaurant dishes up comfort food like mac and cheese and a classic New England clam chowder.

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Diners can share platters of slow-roasted meat joints, wood-fired pizzas and New England clam chowder served from an open kitchen, or retreat to the live music lounge for bar snacks accompanied by late night tunes.

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The end of the boom days also means that locals' favourite spots, such as Duryea's Lobster Deck, at the edge of a rotting, abandoned pier in Montauk - the New England Clam Chowder and Lobster Roll are essential summer pleasures - are now relatively peaceful on weekdays.

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Almost all lobster places offer numerous options like mussels and clams in with the lobsters for a true clambake style feast, plus the usual accompaniment is hearty New England style clam chowder (god forbid Manhattan style).

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Rhode Island also has a distinctive clam chowder: while Manhattan is red and New England white, the version here is clear.

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New England is famous for seafood, for inventing fried clams, for its lobster rolls, for its namesake clam chowder, and much more, but one of its least well known cuisines is the very unique seafood of the small Rhode Island coast.

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