We will be adding a new restaurant to our regular rotation. Last night we had a delicious dinner at the Nottingham Inn on Route 272, just off the Route 1 bypass, near the Maryland border. I had the evening's "special": a grilled ham steak with shrimp in an orange-cranberry sauce, with spinach and roasted potatoes. My date had the salmon cakes with sweet-potato fries.
It's a wholesome, friendly spot full of "regulars." As soon as we said it was our first visit, we got a warm welcome from everyone. Our cheerful waitress offered to tell us the history of the place. When one elderly woman came in with her son, two waitresses went over to her immediately and said how glad they were to see her and asked where she had been. Our fellow guests were two men who looked like they were talking business, several couples, and a family with two teenage girls who, judging from their clothes, had just come from sports practice.
In addition to the restaurant (which also serves breakfast and lunch) there's a "creamery" -- an outside window where you can get ice cream. (A family of ice-cream lovers I know who live nearby make a point of visiting the very day that the place opens every spring -- and many times during the summer as well!)
It took me about 25 minutes from my house to get to the Inn, and that was going "the back way." Had I used the Route 1 bypass, it would have been less.
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