Johnny Ad's

910 Boston Post Rd., Old Saybrook, CT - (860) 388-4032

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Posted By Michael Stern on April 2, 2003 6:33 PM

Although it feels like a summer place, Johnny Ad’s is open year around; and other than the deck of picnic tables that make outdoor dining here along Route One such a pleasure, there is a whole indoor dining room for shoreline feasting.

And this is a shoreline restaurant, make no mistake about that. Featured menu items include fragile-crusted whole belly clams (or clam strips, if that’s what you prefer), shrimp, scallops, calamari, and soft-shell crab, all available either on a plate with fries and cole slaw or in a roll, which is a toasted buttered bun.

Among the superior seafood rolls available is a hot lobster roll: hunks of warm pink meat bathed in butter and nestled in one of those long, tender buns. It is also possible to get a cool lobster salad roll, the pieces of lobster bound with mayonnaise. The latter is more typical of New England; the hot roll is a Connecticut specialty, and a lobster-lover’s delight.

K.A. Bowen, who tipped us off to Johnny Ad’s highly recommended we also try a hot dog. It’s a beauty, alright, a plump, foot-long Hummel that tastes especially right when blanketed with chili and cheese.

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