Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Duckfat and Acadia



One of our first concerts of the season was up in Maine on Mount Desert Island (oddly enough, pronounced "Dessert" by the locals) at the aptly named Claremont Hotel ;-) We stopped en route in Portland, ME to visit one of our best friends, the fabulous composer, Hillary Zipper. Hillary was the first composer who we commissioned as a group when she wrote Cythera for us in 2002. Here's a photo of Emily and Hillary.

Portland is a charming city and Hillary introduced us to one of it's treasures: Duckfat. With a name like that, how could this cafe not be a huge success? The menu spanned everything from a roasted beet salad to Belgian fries to Poutine (a Quebecois dish of French fries with cheese curds and gravy) to the $5 milkshake which costs $4. I can still taste that yummy milkshake....


Needless to say, the next day I felt like getting some exercise before our concert so Emily and I made our way to Acadia national park and hiked for a while on Cadillac Mountain. Hopefully our touring schedule will take us back to that part of the country soon....

















3 Comments:

At 8:42 AM, Blogger histfan said...

I loved the Portland Museum of Art and liked the Victoria Mansion. Will have to try the poutine next time that I take the Amtrak Downeaster from Boston.

 
At 1:17 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Who did you play for at the Claremont Hotel? Guests? Mount Desert residents? And has the hotel designated the Claremont Trio as the official Trio of the Claremont Hotel? Acadia pictures look beautiful! But I don't think I could walk into a restaurant that called itself Duckfat....

Percival

 
At 11:24 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is Crabby Jack's Lobster Shack still open? He had the freshest Maine lobsters that he'd pilfer from other fisherman's traps. Never bothering to tie-up their claws, he'd serve you a boiling mad lobster writhing about the table like a soul in damnation. Half the fun was watching the crustacean snap at everything within its reach, with nothing more than a tiny lobster fork to ward it off. You didn't want that red hot snapper falling onto your lap cuz that could change a guys outlook about life & luv =0/...

 

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