fried salmon

Another night, blackened fish tacos were dry, with fried salmon - an odd choice - cut so small as to look like scraps.

Christmas breakfast often consists of scrambled eggs, cold-cuts served with horseradish sauce, smoked or fried salmon, marinated salads, coffee, tea and cakes, i.e. poppy seed roll, gingerbread (piernik) cake and cookies, kutia, etc.

You may start with an amuse-gueule of enticing little strips of lightly fried salmon with a sauce remoulade, then move on to a simple but invigorating monkfish and potato salad with turnip chips and scallions in a light vinaigrette.

Travelers can get a quick taste of local seafood with an order of fried salmon and chips or clam chowder at Ivar's Fish Bar, or sit down for a more leisurely meal at Anthony's Restaurant and Fish-Bar, a homegrown chain with restaurants that dot the region's waterfronts.