Lobster Rolls at the Roadhouse

Maine is seemingly is the first spot where Europeans settled in North America and lobster fishing is the oldest industry in the state. There are families that are in their third, fourth, even fifteen generation of lobstering. It’s hard to believe nowadays but there was a time when lobster for dinner was something that New England kids probably used to complain about—“lobster again?” is hardly something you’re going to hear much around Ann Arbor in 2007. But back ‘bout two …

Superior Scallops

by Ari Weinzweig

Find out about our upcoming New England Dinner!

While we’ve never really called them out as a headline act, scallops are actually one of the most steadily popular dinners at the Roadhouse—it’s one of those dishes that people come back for over and over again, quietly but consistently eating and enjoying and remarking about how much better these scallops are than what they’re used to finding. Although they’re probably an afterthought to most Midwesterners, there’s no question …

New England Clam Chowder

by Ari Weinzweig

I can’t say I’ve seen it in person but I know that there was an episode of the Simpsons where Homer prays and thanks God “for giving us two kinds of Clam Chowder.” This month we’re focusing on New England so we’ll skip over the redder face of what’s commonly called Manhattan clam chowder and focus on the milk-based version we all know and love as New England Clam Chowder.

This is a subject deserving a lot …

Maryland Crab Cakes at the Roadhouse

Crab cakes have been on my mind a lot of late—I’ve become ever more aware of just how many Roadhouse regulars tell me these are their favorite thing on the menu. Also because I’ve been writing about African American foodways and these have come up as one little asterisk of an item in that context. And lastly because I seem to been talking to a lot of Baltimoreans lately, most of whom I’ve mentioned below. One of them is Bonny …