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These "shoreline icons" feature lobster rolls loaded with meat, clams, crab cakes and other "fried fixes" at "cheap prices" |
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Our Lobster Rolls were featured in this picture in an article in the Hartford Courant about Lobster Rolls in August 2007.
They wrote: Lenny & Joe's Fish Tale offers an over-stuffed lobster roll plate. |
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In the Spring of 2007 we
learned that we will be in
"The New England Clam Shack
Cookbook"
by
Brook Dojny.
A number of Lenny & Joe's
Fish Tale recipes
will be included!
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In the June 2007 edition of
Coastal Living
Lenny & Joe's was named
one of the top 25
Best Seafood Places
in the Entire United States!
"....Lenny & Joe's delivers on its deceptively simple promise of "generous portions of the freshest seafood at very reasonable prices." We especially like the fried shrimp and the lobster roll. The clear broth clam chowder, a regional specialty often found in CT and RI, is also worth sampling." |
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Dinner & a Movie Review • New London Day May 31, 2007
Some Highlights from the Review
"Lenny & Joe's has been a mainstay of the kind of food for which New England's summer resorts are known. Open from lunch through dinner, its strengths lie in the freshest ingredients, capable service, and to be blunt a good bar."
"We began with a cup of clam chowder and a basket of fried calamari. The owners pride themselves on their clam chowder, a hybrid of traditional Rhode Island and New England recipes. Small bits of clam and cubed potato add substance to a light clam broth to which the slightest bit of milk has been added......and the chowder isn't bogged down with flour."
"The calamari, too, were a hit. In my 15-year experience, the restaurant has done a good job with fried fish and shellfish. The squid were coated with a crisp breading and remained tender-no rubbery overcooking."
"Hot Buttered Lobster Roll is first among equals"
"A plate of sweet and lightly breaded whole clams was about as good as fried clams can get."
"it was accompanied by Lenny & Joe's coleslaw, crisp and tart, sprinkled with dill seed, and only distantly relating to cabbage salads smothered by mayonnaise."
"We also loved a casserole of fresh lobster and rock crab meat, topped with breadcrumbs and swiftly run under the broiler."
"despite the constant turnover of well-fed clients, its staff remains sungularly accomodating."
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In 2003 travel writer Paricia Schultz wrote 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.
An instant phenomenon, it is one of the best selling travel books ever published.
After researching the U.S.A. and Canada high and low, Patricia's new book-
"1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die"
has just been published. We are delighted that we are one of
Patricia's must visit recommendations. |
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January 2007
Lenny & Joe's Fish Tale
was named
The Best Seafood Restaurant
in Connecticut by
the Readers of
Connecticut Magazine. |
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"Lenny & Joe's kitchens, which turn out New England
seafood classics, all good, some great....I beeline for the
scallops: stunningly sweet with just the right flesh-to-crunch
ratio. Another winner is the fish and chips, made with scrod.
....the chowder is a Rhode Island-style (brothy, not creamy),
and it tastes like a marina in the very best sense.
...the kitchen also deep-fries soft-shell crabs, in season,
to great effect. The tartar sauce here is not an afterthought,
but made fresh with heaps of chopped dill pickles.
....their hot buttered lobster roll has won awards, which
is not surprising!"
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On October 26, 2005 Lenny & Joe were honored at the Connecticut Restaurant Association's annual Salute
to Excellence Awards & Recognition Dinner as the Restaurateurs of the Year! |
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Lenny & Joe's Fish Tale Restaurants
were Award Winners in the 2006
Shore Line Newspaper's Best:
Best Seafood
Best Restaurant for Family Dinner
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Yankee Magazine Wrote:
Our favorite place along the shore to indulge in
deep-fried delection is Lenny & Joe's Fish Tale.....
where whole-belly clams are mouthfuls of marine
flavor surrounded by just the right amount of
golden crunch......whatever other fried things you
order-scallops, scrod, oysters, shrimp, calamari; they
are all wonderful-be sure to get onion rings on the side.
Brittle hoops of crust enclose the bequiling onion
sweetness that complements any fish.
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Lenny & Joe's Fish Tale Restaurants
were Award Winners in the
Shore Line Newspaper's Best:
Best Seafood
Best Restaurant for Family Dinner
Best Hot Dogs
Best Chowder
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We also won the Award again in September 2005.
In the 2005 issue they added "Fried clams are fairly common in Connecticut,
but none match the flavor and intensity of Lenny & Joe's golden-brown
beauties. Selected for their firmness and freshness, they're fried
and served between crunchy fries and delicious homemade coleslaw." |
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“Our Fried Clams Were Picked as the Dish to Represent
CT in the 50 Great Plates of America”
This was done in honor of the arrival of 2000
by the National Edition of
USA Today Newspaper |
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Our Fried Clams received a very nice award.
In the Septemeber 2004 Issue of Connecticut Magazine,
Lenny & Joe's Fish Tale Won the Editor's
Choice Award for Best fried Clams.
They commented: "..some have been known to drive 100 miles.....
order clams for take-out and finish them off before getting
back on I-95. How's that for customer loyalty". |
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Ct Magazine wrote:
among the most popular is the one
served at Lenny & Joe's Fish Tale
on Route 1 in Westbrook and Madison,
where-as has become customary-
a generous amount of meat is stuffed
into a toasted New England-style,
split-top hot dog roll.
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This guide book wrote:
A huge, cheap seafood restaurant,
easily accomodating a hundred
hungry diners. This place is terrific!
.......Stand back everyone, this is
Clam Heaven!
.....try the Lobster Roll. They take a
bun that's been buttered, toasted,
then buttered again and filled
with lobster chunks........
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Faith's Table • Food Adventures with Faith Middletown
Northeast Magazine- 2000
Highlights from Summer on a Roll:
"For a hot roll filled with lots of buttert lobster, I go to Lenny & Joe's in Madison & Westbrook."
"Picking up the phone during a busy supper hour, Joe told me he loads every
roll with a quarter pound of real lobster meat, and he uses real butter
to toast those Freihoffer's rolls." |
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Highlights of 2002 Edition
......Lenny & Joe's remain casual eat-places.....the quality
of the food is impeccable, and the quantities are awesome.
the whole-bellied fried calms are big and succulent with
golden crusts. We also love the fried shrimp & scallops,
even simple fried fish.......the undecided customer will be happy
ordering a variety platter with some of everything. It is a gargantuan
meal....the other necessary item would be an order of fried onions;
Lenny & Joe's onion rings are wicked good!
Lenny & Joe's is one of the few reliable places for a hot lobster roll...
.nothing but chunks and shreds of lobster meat heaped into a long roll.
This is pure bliss...in seaon, the kitchen also offers a softshell crab roll
that is almost as luscious.
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Highlights of 1992 Edition
both are feed-the-familky eating barns and are choice places
to eat maximum amounts of top-quality shoreline food at minimum prices...there aren't many kitchens that know how to fry fish as well
as Lenny & Joe's.
.....clams are sheathed in a fragile, tender crust that tastes great.
The whole-bellied ones are behemoths-big, weighty clods of luscious, nectareously tender clam encased in their breading....whatever size
you order, you get more then you expect......onion rings are well worth
it-big crunchy hoops with a real onion sweetness ....
....we have eaten superb hunks of char-broiled, smoky flavored
swordfish Steak and satisfying casseroles of broiled shrimp with
garlic and a swell baked stuffed shrimp!
.....and then there is the lobster roll....presented in a long, butter-grilled split wiener roll, it is loaded with pieces of lobster meat.... |
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2002 Zagat Included:
"Fleets of fans "come as they are, right
from the Beach" to these seafooders
for "fast", "cheap"
and "simply prepared
fresh fish" that includes "the sweetest
clams in the world";
......both are kid-friendly.....
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1999 Zagat Included:
"These "eat-with-your-fingers" seafooders
have been reeling in patrons for almost
three decades with "fast, fresh, fried
fish that's the standard" on the shoreline.
......regulars love the fried clams and chips" |
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The Best of Daytripping concluded:
friends who have traveled the world
think that the best seafood is close to
home at Lenny & Joe's. They're partial to
the Fish Tale, especially the fried platter
of clams, shrimp, scallops and scrod!
....the clam roll is a bargain, overflowing
with clams and accompanied by
coleslaw.
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Interstate Gourmet wrote:
....there is a place that goes out of it's
way to do things differently. Every day of
the year the Fish Tale prints a different menu to
"reflect weather, market conditions, and fishing luck."
...if you prefer your fish fried, you'll find the surface soft and
flaky, not clothed in a coat of greasy snadpaper! The secret is
in the batter. Instead of preparing and stacking a hundred filets
each morning, at Lenny & Joe's each one is battered to order.
It takes a little longer, but we could certainly taste the difference."
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Yankee Traveler Wrote:
having driven up and down the coast of maine looking for the ultimate fried, fresh, whole clams, we discovered the ultimate experience in Connecticut........Other than the lack of a waterfront property, Lenny & Joe's has gotten absolutely everything right........But the primary reason to visit Lenny & Joe's is the fried clams: a mountain of whole-belly clams, accompanied by wonderful coleslaw. The second reason to go to Lenny & Joe's is the onion rings
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