Engine Room, Mystic CT
The Engine Room is the sister restaurant of the high-end Oyster Club. It serves good bar food in a noisy industrial setting. The bar area is always packed. A fun place to go, but not if you want a peaceful evening!
Stonington Seafood Harvesters
Stonington Seafood Harvesters is owned by the Bombster family and is a local institution. This family has several huge fishing trawlers that they use to harvest some to the best scallops you will ever taste. The scallops are flash frozen on the boat, as they are caught, way out at sea, so are always of the upmost freshest. They have a big distribution area, but are also the main source of scallops to the local restaurants where they will be described on the menu as the "Bomster Scallops". They also fish for the Stonington Red Shrimp I described on the Seawell entry, and many other types of fish, but are reknown for their scallops. They have a unique retail stand over by the Stonington Fishing docks. There are freezers lined up under an awing like gray building. The customer selects what they want out of the freezers, which are filled with scallops, etc, uses the provided adding machine to calculate what they owe and either deposits a cash payment or check in a slo...
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