Just over the Rhode Island line on Massachusetts’s south shore, Fall River is a treasure trove of Roadfood: unique restaurants serving unusual dishes, many of which are Fall River’s alone. Among these are the hot cheese sandwich (no, it’s not grilled cheese!) and the chow mein sandwich as well as such Portuguese-ancestored specialties as chourico & bean dogs, chourico pizzas, malasadas, stuffies, bean cakes, kale soup, and chicken Mozambique. The city’s Liberal Club is an interesting slice of life: restaurant, bar, social club, and banquet hall dating back to 1915. No visit to Fall River would be right without a stop at Hartley’s Original Pork Pies, where all the traditional savory pies are supplemented by the likes of Buffalo chicken pie and weekend salmon pie.
Is there another dish as diverse as pizza? It can be an utterly simple tomato pie – nothing but sauce on crust – or it can be a multi-meat...
Original Northeastern Tomato Pies The original tomato pies in cities of the Northeast were simply flatbreads topped with crushed tomatoes, spice and maybe a few anchovies or a sprinkle of...
Grilled Cheese From pressed-flat, wafer-thin, white-bread-and-Velveeta cooked on a lunch-counter flattop to effulgent bouquets of imported cheese melted between halves of an artisan bun, the best grilled cheese sandwiches have...
There's no point getting into a flame war over which American hot dog is best. It's impossible, because the nation's hot dogs are so diverse. However, we will go...
Eating around Fall River, Massachusetts, is like eating in a foreign country, and we don't only mean that the Portuguese food is outstanding. (Half the population is of Portuguese...
