Inside, a bar and cafeteria-style restaurant serves chunky seafood chowder and a hoppy beer produced by local Howe Sound Brewing.

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Pubs serve fresh seafood chowder, Irish brown bread and a slow-pulled pint of stout next to real peat fires.

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The on-site restaurant, appropriately named the Perfect Blend, offers up local fare, including favourites such as seafood chowder and lobster rolls.

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Along with a seafood menu including Atlantic lobster and seafood chowder that Laing says was tastier than Nobu sushi, the couple played the Graham Cooke-designed golf course, eight-room spa and 63-foot luxury cabin cruiser for private sightseeing tours.

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For oysters with a water view, award-winning clam chowder and classic fried seafood, Claudio's Clam Bar has a celebratory feel for no apparent reason except that life is good in the North Fork.

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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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The other shellfish does not vary much either, and the biggest difference will be the sides, range of options and chowder, which is why frankly I like Legal Seafood.

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