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Salem’s 43 Church is a good find

  April 22, 2012

Four of us chose the $25 Restaurant Week specials. Venturing outside the prix-fixe menu, one of our party, an Army lieutenant on leave, ordered a $10 appetizer of Prince Edward Island mussels. ”The sauce is wonderful, and the mussels are not overcooked,” said the lieutenant’s mother. His father, a weekend shellfisher, wasn’t convinced of the freshness. ”I’m a mussel guy,” he said. ”I know about mussels.” (They tasted fine to the rest of us.)

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