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River Gods

An Irish pub that’s a real restaurant (with a punk sensibility)

By ROBERT NADEAU | May 24, 2006

2.0 Stars

At the same restaurant, my daughter had a meat platter with the immortal French fries. Although Salema is a village of octopus fisherman, and they were out at night checking their traps, I found octopus only once on a menu there — and that was in a salad (superb) at the local ice-cream café. Apparently, the octopuses go to some non-local market, just as the bluefin tuna from Cape Cod go mostly to Japan.

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