Restaurant review: Weathervane Seafood Restaurant, Kittery Maine

What could be a better combination than outlet shopping and delicious seafood? Kittery Maine offers this in abundance and one of our favorite restaurants is Weathervane. It has a rustic nautical decor and is often very very busy. The food is abundant and very good.

We arrived on Black Friday at about 2 p.m., we thought that perhaps at this time which was late for lunch and early for dinner, we would not find it too busy. We were wrong, it was very busy. The told us we would have at least a 20-minute wait for a seat. Since we wanted to eat here, we were more than willing to be patient. In reality, it was only about 10 minutes.

We were escorted to a booth and our drink order was taken. The menu is extensive and deciding what to eat is not easy. I decided to start with clam chowder and we ordered onion rings to share among the four of us. Kasey and I decided to share the Lazy Man Lobster, which is the meat of two lobsters served with drawn butter, choice of potato and a fresh side. Al ordered the fish and chips and Alex got the fried seafood combo.

I have to say that everything was absolutely delicious, the coating on the onion rings is light and you don't feel weighed down with the fact that they are fried. The chowdah is as thick and luscious as you could want but it is the lobster that was the star of the meal. It was the sweetest most tender lobster I have ever eaten and well worth the 2.5-hour drive even if we didn't go shopping.