"Located just outside of Boston in Winthrop, Massachusetts, with Boston Logan International Airport right across the water, Belle Isle Seafood is a no-frills sort of joint - the kind of place where walls covered in taxidermied fish and aging interior decor belie what you know will be an excellent menu. When Anthony Bourdain visited Belle Isle seafood in an episode of "No Reservations," the voiceover specifically noted that the restaurants chosen for this particular episode were "not the best of Boston,""
"Belle Isle Seafood isn't the sort of restaurant where one expects a plate to come out with a smear of bright sauce artfully spread around the edge to tease the eyes. No, this is a place where all of Boston can come to enjoy the fruits of the sea in portions of frankly stunning magnitude, with teetering towers of fried fish and buttery rolls overflowing with that sweet flesh of the northeastern U.S.'s most-prized crustaceans."
Belle Isle Seafood sits in Winthrop, Massachusetts, just outside Boston and across the water from Logan International Airport. The restaurant maintains a no-frills atmosphere with walls of taxidermied fish and aging decor that contrasts with a consistently excellent, value-driven menu. Menu items arrive in very large portions, including towering fried fish plates and buttery rolls stuffed with sweet northeastern lobster. The operation has more than eighty years in business and operates without a website or Instagram presence. A popular food-and-travel television program featured the restaurant to showcase excellent, inexpensive spots favored by budget-conscious visitors.
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