Josh Buxton of Derry is the owner of Buxton’s Pizza (buxtonspizza.com, find them on Facebook and Instagram @buxtonspizza), a mobile brick oven pizza truck specializing in Neapolitan-style pizzas, calzones and cannolis. Since the launch of his business over the summer, Buxton has appeared at private events and parties all over southern New Hampshire on most weekends. The truck is a 13-foot retired FBI mobile command center from New Haven, Connecticut, that Buxton found at a local auction. His menu includes multiple types of 12-inch pizzas cooked fresh on the truck, with traditional toppings like cheese, pepperoni and margherita. But he’s also dabbled in unique offerings like Mexican street corn pizza with corn grown at J&F Farms in Derry, and a pizza with Cortland apples, bacon, cheese and Brussels sprouts called the Brussel Pig. The catering menu expands to other options cooked in the wood-fired oven, from wings to tater tots. As for cannolis, he has offered various filling flavors like Fruity Pebbles, strawberry shortcake and Oreo.
What is your must-have kitchen item?
A pizza peel.
What would you have for your last meal?
I just love food in general. … I’d probably say some really good tacos, either carnitas or al pastor. Just really nice and simple, but they’d have to be authentic.
What is your favorite local restaurant?
I’m going to give it to The Birch on Elm [in Manchester]. [Chef] Nick Provencher has really inspired me. I just think their food pairings are really great and Nick is really good with the crazy stuff that he does.
What celebrity would you like to see trying something from your menu?
Any celebrity would obviously be great to have, but I think my biggest inspiration is [chef] Matty Matheson, so definitely him.
What is your personal favorite thing you’ve offered on your menu?
I’d probably say the Mexican street corn pizza, because it combines two of my favorite things — pizza and Mexican food. It has charred corn from J&F Farms, pickled red onions, jalapenos, Cotija cheese and a lime cilantro aioli that I make.
What is the biggest food trend in New Hampshire right now?
Instagrammable food has been a trend for a while, just with everybody trying to capture a really good-looking item on camera.
What is your favorite thing to cook at home?
I like a nice cast iron rib-eye. Just a real simple meal.
Oreo cannolis From the kitchen of Josh Buxton of Buxton’s Pizza (yields about a dozen cannolis, depending on the size of the cannoli shells you are using)
2 pounds ricotta 1 cup crushed Oreos 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup powdered sugar
Strain ricotta in a cheesecloth to remove the liquid. Add vanilla and powdered sugar to ricotta and mix. Mix in more powdered sugar to get filling up to the desired sweetness. Fold in the crushed Oreo cookies. Use a piping bag to fill a cannoli shell and enjoy.
Food & Drink
Summer farmers markets • Concord Farmers Market is Saturdays, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, on Capitol Street in Concord (near the Statehouse), now through Oct. 31. Visit concordfarmersmarket.com.
• Contoocook Farmers Market is Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to noon, at 896 Main St. in Contoocook, outdoors through at least Oct. 31. The year-round market usually moves indoors to Maple Street Elementary School (194 Main St..) in early November. Find them on Facebook @contoocookfarmersmarket for updates.
• Henniker Community Market is Thursdays, from 4 to 7 p.m., at Henniker Community Center (57 Main St.), now through Oct. 29. Find them on Facebook @hennikercommunitymarket.
• Milford Farmers Market is Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 300 Elm St. in Milford (across the street from the New Hampshire Antique Co-op), now through Nov. 21. Visit milfordnhfarmersmarket.com.
• Salem Farmers Market is Sundays, from 10 a.m. to noon, at Salem Marketplace (224 N. Broadway). Visit salemnhfarmersmarket.org.
A new shop in Amherst can best be described as a “unique boutique,” its owners say, with coffee, tea and pastries, antiques and a beauty bar all under one roof.
Étagère (pronounced “eht-uh-ZHAIR”), which held its grand opening the first weekend in October, gets its name from the French word for a curio cabinet, or an open shelf cabinet in which multiple types of collectibles are displayed that was typical of Victorian-era home decor. The name, according to co-owner Joy Martello, is symbolic of the different tasting and shopping experiences available to customers with each visit.
“We really wanted a place that was a feast for the eyes, and not designed like a big box store,” said Martello, a self-taught baker and antique collector who runs Étagère with her daughter Brook and her longtime friend, classically trained pastry chef and former culinary arts teacher Cheryl Emerson. “We want you to walk in here and go ‘whoa’ … and then the more you walk through the shop, the more treasures you find and enjoy.”
Desserts and breakfast pastries — many of which are European-inspired with an American twist, Martello said — are made in-house, and you never know what you may find in the case on any given day. On the breakfast side, offerings have included pecan sticky buns, stuffed cardamom buns, almond croissants, and multiple flavors of muffins, Danishes, quiches and scones.
Martello and Emerson also prepare several of their own takes on classic European desserts, like tiramisu, chocolate tarts and French macarons (featured flavors have been vanilla, strawberry shortcake, oatmeal cookie, pistachio, Bananas Foster and blueberry cheesecake).
“I definitely wanted the pastry end … to reflect a little bit of Europe,” Martello said. “Traveling in France, the pastries I’ve seen there [are] pieces of art, and I wanted that for my pastry cabinet, where people can enjoy looking at that pastry as well as eating that pastry.”
Most of the time, Étagère’s pastry case has treats that are completely untraditional, too. The Island Paradise, for instance, is a short dough cookie with a crushed pineapple gelée center, a coconut cremeux and a mango mousse. Others include the strawberry pistachio cake (with layers of strawberry and pistachio cremeux encased in a vanilla mousse and strawberry glaze) and a s’mores tart with a graham cracker crust and a marshmallow mousse on top.
The shop has a full coffee menu, from traditional drip coffee to espresso lattes, with its own blends from beans roasted at Good as Gold Coffee in Worcester, Mass.
“We have two house whole bean blends — the Noir, which is a dark roast, and then the Lumiere is a light roast,” said Brook Martello, adding that nitro brew and cold brew are also available.
Other drinks include hot, iced and nitro teas, hot chocolate and fresh squeezed lemonade. You can also book high tea tastings by calling or visiting the website. Tea tastings are available every Wednesday through Sunday at 12:30 p.m., with a second seating later in the afternoon to be added soon. The tasting menu will likely change twice a month.
In addition to offering European-style pastries, coffees and teas, Étagère operates as a small antique shop with home decor items, gifts, trinkets and more. A 600-square-foot beauty bar with four pedicure tables and a face and body treatment room is also in the back of the shop, available to rent for parties, baby showers and other private functions.
Étagère Where: 114B Route 101A, Amherst Hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. (High tea tastings are by reservation only, at 12:30 p.m. every Wednesday through Sunday; visit their website or follow them on social media for expanded winter hours and additional high tea reservation times.) More info: Visit sipshopsoak.com, follow them on Facebook and Instagram @etagere.sipshopsoak or call 417-3121
Frankie’s Diner & Stonecutter’s Pub coming to Milford
Chicken Parmesan. Photo courtesy of Frankie’s Diner.
A restaurateur his entire adult life, Frankie Bobola got his start in the industry in 1962, his career spanning decades at several local establishments. Frankie died in April 2018, one month after the second Bobola’s Family Restaurant opened in Nashua, but his family is paying tribute to him with a new location in his name that will double as an upstairs diner and downstairs pub. Frankie’s Diner, overlooking the Souhegan River on the Milford Oval, will also include the Stonecutter’s Pub downstairs, with dinner service and a full bar. Both are on track to open in the coming weeks, in the former spaces of the Red Arrow Diner and J’s Tavern, respectively. “We wanted to try putting a little different twist on what we do,” said Frankie’s son Derek Bobola, who now runs both Bobola’s Family Restaurant locations in Nashua and Dracut, Mass. “My father loved diners. … He worked in a lot of high-end places but he always reverted back to the old-school diner. It was like his comfort place.”
My father … worked in a lot of high-end places, but he always reverted back to the old-school diner.
Derek bobola
Bobola had looked at several other potential locations in southern New Hampshire to expand, but it was the disparity of the two adjoining spaces in Milford that ended up sealing the deal for him, he said. Renovations have taken place over the last several months, including an overhaul of the diner’s interior, with freshly painted walls, and new floors, tables and booths. Frankie’s Diner’s company logo even features a drawing of a man in a chef’s hat with a cooking spoon — a modernized version of the same drawing by Derek’s older sister Kim as a teenager, which Frankie put on the menu of the first restaurant he operated on his own in the 1980s. Both Bobola’s Family Restaurant locations are known for their simple, home-cooked meals served in a casual dining environment, from plated breakfasts to burgers, sandwiches, pastas and seafood dinners. Many of those items will also be part of the menu at Frankie’s Diner, like the eatery’s wildly popular French onion soup, the hand-breaded onion rings and hand-cut fries, the mushroom Swiss and barbecue bacon burgers, the chicken Parmesan, turkey and pot roast entrees, and the fresh seafood dishes, like a baked seafood casserole with either house, walnut or crabmeat stuffing, and the fisherman’s platter, or a plate of haddock, sea scallops, Jumbo shrimp and clams, served with french fries, onion rings and coleslaw. While Frankie’s will pay homage to the classic diner, Bobola said Stonecutter’s Pub, borrowing its name from a lounge that operated in the same space throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, will take things a step up. Several new menu items not previously available at either Bobola’s restaurant will be introduced, like bacon-wrapped pretzels with jalapenos and house-made beer cheese; a mushroom stout burger with caramelized onions, bacon, Swiss cheese and cracked pepper aioli; a grilled veggie stack sandwich with eggplant, mushrooms, pepper, zucchini and tomato; a panko fried chicken sandwich with bacon, tomatoes, jalapeno aioli and pomegranate slaw; and a chicken cordon bleu sandwich on a pretzel bun with lettuce, tomatoes and honey mustard. Specialty entrees like braised short ribs, Buffalo chicken or pulled pork macaroni and cheese, sirloin tips, lamb shanks with demi-glace and prime rib on Fridays and Saturdays are also expected, as well as homemade desserts from family recipes and a full bar with 10 lines on draft. “We want it to be a neighborhood place,” Bobola said. “We were trying to get some ideas for names and looking up the history of Milford a little bit, and a lot of people in town we talked to would talk about how they used to love Stonecutter’s and that it would be so cool to bring it back. … So we went with that for the name, kind of like as a little throwback.” Frankie’s will likely be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner through about 8 p.m., he said, while Stonecutter’s will begin lunch service around 11:30 a.m. and remain open later at night.
Frankie’s Diner & Stonecutter’s Pub An opening date for both eateries is expected in the coming weeks. Visit the website or follow them on social media for updates. Where: 63 Union Square, Milford Hours: TBA Visit: bobolasrestaurants.com or find them on Facebook or Instagram @frankiesdinermilford
Featured photo: Boom Boom Burger. Photo courtesy of Frankie’s Diner.
• Local wine tour: Fulchino Vineyard (187 Pine Hill Road, Hollis) will host the make-up dates of its commemoration of National Drink Wine Weekend during the weekend of Oct. 24 and Oct. 25. For $20 each, ticket holders can visit up to five participating local wineries throughout the weekend and taste four different wines, including at Fulchino but also at Averill House Vineyard (21 Averill Road, Brookline), Moonlight Meadery (23 Londonderry Road, Londonderry), Appolo Vineyards (49 Lawrence Road, Derry) and Winnipesaukee Winery (458 Center St., Wolfeboro). All ticket holders also receive an event tasting glass and a chance to win gift packages of bottles from each participating winery. Purchase tickets online at fulchino-vineyard-inc.square.site.
• Gourmet flavors: Dozens of local specialty food vendors and food trucks will be on hand during the Great New England Fall Craft & Artisan Show, a two-day event happening on Saturday, Oct. 24, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Sunday, Oct. 25, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Hampshire Dome (34 Emerson Road, Milford). The show will feature vendors from New Hampshire and other New England states selling items like baked goods, maple syrups, honeys, fudge, salsas, specialty dips, jams and jellies, in addition to handmade crafts, apparel and personal care products. Food trucks will be parked outside the venue with outdoor seating, and a schedule of live local music is planned as well. Tickets are available online at ticketleap.com or at the door for $5 each (your ticket is good for both days) and children ages 12 and under are admitted free of charge. Visit gnecraftartisanshows.com.
• An Able-bodied dinner: Join The Grand at the Bedford Village Inn (12 Olde Bedford Way, Bedford) for an Able Ebenezer beer dinner on Thursday, Oct. 29, from 6 to 9 p.m. The multi-course dinner will feature various selections from Able Ebenezer Brewing Co. in Merrimack. Food options will include hors d’oeuvres like artisan cheeses and crackers with house-made seasonal spreads (paired with the Victory Nor Defeat double IPA); a fall salad with apple, butternut squash, Boursin, Swiss chard, microgreens, hazelnut, ginger and pomegranate (paired with the La Mere Marianne culinary ale); crispy confit duck leg with poblano pepper hash (paired with the Burn the Ships smoked IPA); salumi Bolognese stuffed delicata (paired with the Homecoming Harvest pumpkin ale); and caramel apple cake (paired with the Glory Not the Prey New England IPA). Tickets are $70 per person and must be purchased in advance. Visit bedfordvillageinn.com.
Matt Berry and Lauren Foster Berry of Milford are the owners of Dahlia Restaurant (dahlianomadic.com, find them on Facebook and Instagram), a series of New England-inspired farm-to-table pop-up dinners they launched last month. Named after the couple’s daughter, Dahlia held its first dinner at Greenleaf in Milford on Sept. 27. A second event followed a week later, at The Birch on Elm in Manchester. Dahlia’s next event, a Halloween-themed dinner, is scheduled for Oct. 25 at Noodz on Elm Street in Manchester. Collaborative dinners are also planned for Nov. 15, with Camacho Knives & Leather in Manchester, and Dec. 6, with Dunk’s Mushrooms & Foraging in Brentwood. Previously, Matt and Lauren both worked at Greenleaf — he as chef de cuisine and she as a pastry chef.
What is your must-have kitchen item?
Lauren: Spoons, in different shapes and sizes, are essential for us, not only for cooking but also for plating. Finding a good spoon to cook with reinvigorates the passion for what we do.
What would you have for your last meal?
Matt: … All of our favorite bad foods. Smash burgers, mozzarella sticks, fried pickles, strawberry milkshakes, things like that.
What is your favorite local restaurant?
Matt: Definitely Otis [in Exeter]. [Owner and chef] Lee Frank is a really good friend of mine, and he’s been a great mentor for me as well. I worked under him as the sous chef. … Lee changes his menu every week, so going to eat there is kind of like putting your faith into his hands, which is an ideology we want to reflect in Dahlia. His clientele really trust his talent as a chef.
What celebrity would you like to see attending one of your dinners?
Matt: [Chef] Sean Brock, hands down. His passion for preserving crops and utilizing classic ingredients really inspired me on a personal level.
What is your personal favorite thing to cook?
Lauren: Mine has always been caramel corn. My earliest memory of being in the kitchen was with my mom, who would make big batches of it for friends and family in our area. The smells of popcorn and caramel are still really special to me and remind me of when I fell in love with cooking for the first time.
Matt: I always tend to come back to New Nordic cuisine. One thing we put on the menu a couple of times at Greenleaf and at Otis was aebleskiver, which is almost like a pancake dumpling cooked in a cast iron pan with divots in it. I also love gravlax, which is cured salmon.
What is the biggest food trend in New Hampshire right now?
Lauren: The farm-to-table trend is definitely really prevalent here right now. Over the last decade, so many more restaurants have focused on local ingredients, and customers have really embraced that as well. Patrons want to hear about the relationships you have, not only with the food but with the people growing it.
What is your favorite thing to cook at home?
Matt: I’m really passionate about making a really good bread. We have a couple of sourdough starters, and we both really like to experiment with different styles.
Lauren: For me, every time I’m cooking at home I always want to make soup. I like to eat soup all year round.
Birch flour biscuits Yields about 12 medium biscuits
250 grams (or about 2 cups) all-purpose flour 100 grams (or about ¾ cup) birch bark flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1 tablespoon local maple syrup 2 teaspoons salt 85 grams (or about ⅓ cup) butter 177 grams (or about ¾ cup) buttermilk
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Set aside birch flour and combine rest of dry ingredients, whisking to combine. Using box grater, grate cold butter. Add to dry ingredients. Using hands or a food processor, mix together until butter is pea-sized and mixture looks like coarse wet sand. Whisk together birch flour and buttermilk in separate bowl. Drizzle over the top of butter and flour mixture, then gently knead to combine, being careful not to overwork dough. Turn dough out onto floured surface and work dough only until it comes together to form a rough ball. After sprinkling the surface of dough with flour, roll it out using a rolling pin to form a rectangle. Fold this in half, rotate rectangle 90 degrees, then flatten dough back out with heel of hands to not overwork dough and to keep biscuits tender. Repeat, folding, turning and pressing the dough back out three times. Using hands, press dough out to form one-inch-thick rectangle. Using two-inch round cookie cutter coated with flour, cut out biscuits and transfer to a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake at 425 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes, until light golden brown. Brush with melted butter and serve warm. To mill your own birch flour: Collect birch bark from white birch tree (only peel bark from recently fallen trees or collect pieces that have shed naturally — cream-colored pieces that are still pliable and not grey or brittle, and that are free from rot or bug holes). Submerge strips of bark in water. Bring to a boil; simmer for two hours. Dehydrate strips in the oven at the lowest setting overnight or in a dehydrator. Mill strips into flour in a food processor. Let spin until the bark has become very fine, then sift through a fine mesh strainer.
Farmers markets • Concord Farmers Market is Saturdays, from 8:30 a.m. to noon, on Capitol Street in Concord (near the Statehouse), now through Oct. 31. Visit concordfarmersmarket.com. • Contoocook Farmers Market is Saturdays, from 9 a.m. to noon, at 896 Main St. in Contoocook, outdoors through at least Oct. 31. Find them on Facebook @contoocookfarmersmarket for updates. • Henniker Community Market is Thursdays, from 4 to 7 p.m., at Henniker Community Center (57 Main St.), through Oct. 29. Find them on Facebook @hennikercommunitymarket. • Milford Farmers Market is Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 300 Elm St. in Milford through Nov. 21. Visit milfordnhfarmersmarket.com. • Nashua Farmers Market is Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at City Hall Plaza (229 Main St.), through Oct. 18. Visit downtownnashua.org/local.
Featured Photo: Matt Berry and Lauren Foster Berry
On the menu of nearly every seafood restaurant and Irish pub in New Hampshire, fish & chips — featuring battered and deep-fried whitefish, usually haddock or cod, with french fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce — is a pair of quintessential New England comfort foods. Local chefs and restaurateurs talk about the way their fish & chips are prepared and how they put their own unique spins on the fried classic, from the type of fish to the batter they use.
Fresh catch
Haddock is far and away the most prevalent fish used for fish & chips in the Granite State. Janet Johnston of The Lobster Boat in Merrimack said not only is it a common whitefish found in the Northern Atlantic, but it’s also a great option due to its leanness and sweet flavor. The Lobster Boat gets fresh fish deliveries six days a week, its haddock already deboned and skinned.
“It holds together when you cook it and comes out real tender and flaky, making it really nice for fish & chips,” she said.
While cod is also an acceptable option, Johnston said its thicker and firmer texture compared to haddock makes it a better fish for grilling than frying.
Eric Griffin of Grill 603 in Milford, which also uses fresh New England haddock for its fish & chips, had been using cod before coming to New Hampshire four years ago. He previously owned and operated a restaurant in the Chesapeake Bay area of Virginia.
“In the South you really can’t get good fresh haddock,” Griffin said. “The natural sweet flavor and flaky texture of the fish, in my opinion, is superior to cod when you cook it just right.”
How the fish is cut up and portioned will depend on where you go. Some restaurants, like Surf in Nashua and Portsmouth, and Hooked in Manchester, serve up one large filet of haddock. Griffin said he likes to prepare it at Grill 603 a little differently.
“We actually cut ours into one- to one-and-a-half-ounce sized pieces, which allows the fish to cook very quickly and evenly,” he said. “A lot of people that come into the restaurant and order it sometimes aren’t prepared for that, but when they take a bite, it’s all over.”
More diverse than the fish itself is the way it’s battered and fried at each eatery in the state. The Lobster Boat, according to Johnston, has used a yellow corn flour-based batter for decades, while at Grill 603 Griffin has his own batter he gets imported from North Carolina.
“The batter we use is super light and flavorful, and very fine, which is why we cut up the fish the way we do when we fry it,” he said. “We also batter each portion to order.”
Michael Lyle, corporate chef of Michael Timothy’s Dining Group, said a tempura batter with gluten-free rice flour and water is used for the fish & chips available at Surf.
In Concord, The Barley House has its own curry beer batter for its fish & chips. Chef Jon Frobese said beer sourced from Concord Craft Brewing is added to the eatery’s tempura batter, as well as some curry powder to enhance its flavor and Smithwick’s Irish ale for added color.
A fishy history
The origin of fish & chips as we know it today can be traced back to mid-19th-century England — the National Federation of Fish Friers recognizes it as “the undisputed national dish of Great Britain” and a “cultural and culinary symbol” of the country, according to its website. Exactly when and where the first plate of fish & chips was ever consumed is where things get, well, fishy. According to The Oxford Companion to Food, an encyclopedia edited by Alan Davidson and published by Oxford University Press, claims of the dish’s invention have been made in both London and Lancashire, some 200 miles to the northwest, around the year 1860, although fried fish and cooked potatoes had both existed separately for a time before. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Culinary & Menu Terms, compiled by Rodney Dale, identifies “chips” as an English colloquial term for french fries.
Pretzel crusted fish & chips from Backyard Brewery & Kitchen. Photo by Matt Ingersoll.
From the late 1800s through about World War II, Davidson writes, the number of fish & chips shops steadily grew across England and Ireland by the thousands. Some merchants, he added, attempted to package and sell fish & chips in used newspapers as a way to keep costs down, although this practice was largely phased out by the 1960s for sanitary reasons.
Chipping in
Almost every New Hampshire eatery offering fish & chips will serve you the fish with a side of french fries, and usually a small bowl of coleslaw and tartar sauce for dipping.
The Lobster Boat, Johnston said, uses a soybean oil that’s changed out every day for frying. The coleslaw is also homemade every morning.
In Nashua, The Peddler’s Daughter hand-cuts all its own fries using fresh Idaho potatoes. Chef Jeff DiAntonio said each serving of fish & chips also comes with two jars each of house-made ketchup and lemon tartar sauce.
Just like with its haddock, Surf prepares its fries in a gluten-free-friendly deep fryer, serving its fish & chips with a side of house tartar sauce.
“We make our own mayonnaise, whipping egg yolks with olive oil, and then we fold in some onions, capers and parsley,” Lyle said.
Grill 603 also makes its own coleslaw and tartar sauce, Griffin said.
“We actually use dill relish for our tartar sauce, which gives it a nice tart, zingy flavor,” he said.
Where to get a plate of fish & chips
From house-battered haddock or cod to hand-cut fries and homemade tartar sauce, here are some restaurants, brew pubs and other businesses in southern New Hampshire that offer their own unique takes on fish & chips.
• 110 Grill (875 Elm St., Manchester, 836-1150; 27 Trafalgar Square, Nashua, 943-7443; 110grill.com) offers fish & chips on its entree menu, featuring North Atlantic cod fried in seasoned flour and served with french fries, tartar sauce and coleslaw.
• 1750 Taphouse (170 Route 101, Bedford, 488-2573, 1750taphouse.com) offers fried beer-battered haddock with hand-cut fries, coleslaw, tartar sauce and a lemon wedge.
• Auburn Tavern (345 Hooksett Road, Auburn, 587-2057, auburntavern.com) offers fresh fried haddock with french fries and coleslaw on its seafood menu.
• Backyard Brewery & Kitchen (1211 S. Mammoth Road, Manchester, 623-3545, backyardbrewerynh.com) uses pretzel-crusted haddock for its fish & chips, which is served over hand-cut fries with pickle slaw and handmade tartar sauce.
• The Barley House Restaurant & Tavern (132 N. Main St., Concord, 228-6363, thebarleyhouse.com) offers fish & chips featuring haddock fried in a curry beer batter and served with french fries, tartar sauce and coleslaw.
• The Beach Plum (3 Brickyard Square, Epping, 679-3200; 16 Ocean Blvd., N. Hampton, 964-7451; 2800 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth, 433-3339; thebeachplum.net) offers fried haddock with french fries, coleslaw and a dinner roll that’s available as a smaller basket or a larger dinner size.
• Buckley’s Great Steaks (438 Daniel Webster Hwy., Merrimack, 424-0995, buckleysgreatsteaks.com) offers fish & chips on its house specialties menu, with coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• Cactus Jack’s Grill & Watering Hole (1182 Union Ave., Laconia, 528-7800, cactusjacksnh.com) offers Jack’s fish & chips on its house specialties menu, featuring fried haddock, fries, fried onion, coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• Casey Magee’s Irish Pub & Music Hall (8 Temple St., Nashua, 484-7400, caseymagees.com) offers Guinness-battered fried cod for its fish & chips entree, served with house fries, homemade coleslaw, tartar sauce and a lemon wedge.
• CJ’s Great West Grill (782 S. Willow St., Manchester, 627-8600, cjsgreatwestgrill.com) offers haddock fried in a tempura batter for its fish & chips, which are served with fries, onion rings, coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• Clam Haven (94 Rockingham Road, Derry, 434-4679, clamhaven.com) is expected to remain open for the season through Oct. 31. The eatery offers several fried fish plates like haddock, clams, scallops, and lobster tails, served with french fries, onion rings and coleslaw.
• Copper Door Restaurant (15 Leavy Dr., Bedford, 488-2677; 41 S. Broadway, Salem, 458-2033; copperdoor.com) offers fish & chips on its lunch menu, featuring haddock with a tempura breading, house fries, coleslaw and remoulade.
• Cork N Keg Grill (4 Essex Dr., Raymond, 244-1573, corknkeggrill.com) offers fish & chips, hand-breaded and served with coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• Diz’s Cafe (860 Elm St., Manchester, 606-2532, dizscafe.com) offers fish & chips that feature deep fried and breaded Atlantic haddock, served with french fries and house-made tartar sauce.
• Downtown Cheers Grille & Bar (17 Depot Road, Concord, 228-0180, cheersnh.com) offers deep fried and lightly breaded haddock on its entree menu, served with french fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• The Farm Bar and Grille (1181 Elm St., Manchester, 641-3276, farmbargrille.com) offers fish & chips that feature more than half a pound of haddock per order, fried and lightly breaded, and served over a bed of waffle fries and house-chopped slaw.
• Firefly American Bistro & Bar (22 Concord St., Manchester, 935-9740, fireflynh.com) uses beer-battered local whitefish for its fish & chips, which are served with french fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• The Flying Goose Brew Pub & Grille (40 Andover Road, New London, 526-6899, flyinggoose.com) uses beer-battered haddock filet for its fish & chips, which are served over pub fries with coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• Fody’s Great American Tavern (9 Clinton St., Nashua, 577-9015; 187½ Rockingham Road, Derry, 404-6946; fodystavern.com) uses beer-battered cod for its fish & chips, which are served with hand-cut fries and tartar sauce.
• The Foundry Restaurant (50 Commercial St., Manchester, 836-1925, foundrynh.com) offers tempura-battered fish & chips with coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• Giorgio’s Ristorante & Bar (270 Granite St., Manchester, 232-3323; 707 Milford Road, Merrimack, 883-7333; giorgios.com) offers the Greek fish & chips, which feature beer-battered haddock over Greek fries, topped with arugula, caper and lemon butter.
• Goldenrod Restaurant (1681 Candia Road, Manchester, 623-9469, goldenrodrestaurant.com) offers a haddock plate on its entree menu, served with french fries and coleslaw.
• Grill 603 (168 Elm St., Milford, 213-6764, grill603.com) uses fresh New England haddock for its fish & chips that is dry breaded Carolina style and served with gourmet fries and coleslaw.
• Holy Grail Food & Spirits (64 Main St., Epping, 679-9559, holygrailrestaurantandpub.com) offers golden fried beer-battered haddock loins, served with homemade chips.
• Hooked Seafood Restaurant & Ignite Bar & Grille (110/100 Hanover St., Manchester, 644-0064, hookedonignite.com) offers fish & chips that feature deep fried haddock, french fries, tartar sauce and coleslaw.
• Jamison’s (472 Route 111, Hampstead, 489-1565, jamisonsrestaurant.com) offers fresh haddock for its fish & chips, which include hand-cut fries, slaw and house tartar sauce.
• Johnson’s Seafood & Steak (1334 First New Hampshire Turnpike, Northwood, 942-7300, find them on Facebook @johnsonsnorthwood) offers fish & chips that feature hand-battered haddock filet and homemade tartar sauce.
• Lakehouse Tavern (157 Main St., Hopkinton, 746-1800, lakehousetavern.com) offers beer-battered haddock for its fish & chips, with fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• The Lobster Boat Restaurant (453 Daniel Webster Hwy., Merrimack, 424-5221; 273 Derry Road, Litchfield, 882-4988; lobsterboatrestaurant.com) offers fish & chips available in small or large sizes on its menu, featuring golden fried haddock with a side of coleslaw.
• The Lobster Claw (4 S. Main St., Derry, 437-2720, lobsterclaw2.com) offers a variety of fried seafood dinners, with options like haddock, flounder, clams, scallops and more. Each dinner is served with french fries and coleslaw.
• Main Street Grill and Bar (32 Main St., Pittsfield, 435-0005, mainstreetgrillandbar.com) uses beer-battered fried haddock for its fish & chips, which are served with french fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• Makris Lobster & Steak House (354 Sheep Davis Road, Concord, 225-7665, eatalobster.com) offers a variety of fried seafood plates in its own homemade batter, with options like haddock, shrimp, scallops, clams and oysters. Each is served with fries and slaw, and there are optional replacement sides like onion rings, Cajun fries and sweet potato fries.
• Murphy’s Taproom (494 Elm St., Manchester, 644-3535, murphystaproom.com) uses red ale-battered haddock for its fish & chips, which are served with coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• Murphy’s Taproom & Carriage House (393 Route 101, Bedford, 488-5975, murphystaproom.com) offers fish & chips on its entree menu, which feature Samuel Adams-battered haddock, house fries, toasted fennel slaw and tartar sauce.
• New England’s Tap House Grille (1292 Hooksett Road, Hooksett, 782-5137, taphousenh.com) uses beer-battered haddock for its fish & chips, which are served with seasoned french fries, coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• Newick’s Lobster House (317 Loudon Road, Concord, 225-2424; 431 Dover Point Road, Dover, 742-3205; newicks.com) offers a variety of fried seafood plates, served with either chips or fries, including haddock, scallops, clam strips and coconut shrimp.
• The Peddler’s Daughter (48 Main St., Nashua, 821-7535, thepeddlersdaughter.com) offers beer-battered fish & chips, which feature fresh haddock loins cut up in house and fried, then served with house cut fries, homemade lemon tartar sauce and ketchup, and malt vinegar.
• The Red Blazer Restaurant and Pub (72 Manchester St., Concord, 224-4101, theredblazer.com) offers fish & chips that feature hand-breaded haddock and are served with french fries, coleslaw and homemade tartar sauce.
• Rocco’s Pizza Bar & Grill (297 Derry Road, Hudson, 577-9866, roccospizzanh.com) uses hand-battered haddock for its fish & chips, which are served with french fries and coleslaw.
• The Shaskeen Pub and Restaurant (909 Elm St., Manchester, 625-0246, theshaskeenpub.com) uses beer-battered haddock filets for its fish & chips, which are served with shoestring fries, house slaw and tartar sauce. You can also switch out the fries for roasted root vegetables or smashed potatoes.
• Shopper’s Pub + Eatery at Indian Head (18 Lake Ave., Manchester, 232-5252, shoppersmht.com) offers fish & chips on its entree menu, which include lightly battered haddock served with fries and slaw.
• Stark House Tavern (487 S. Stark Hwy., Weare, 487-6002, starkhousetavern.com) uses beer-battered haddock for its fish & chips, which are served with hand-cut fries and slaw.
• Surf Restaurant (207 Main St., Nashua, 595-9293; 99 Bow St., Portsmouth, 334-9855; surfseafood.com) offers fish & chips on its entree menu, featuring haddock filet fried in a crispy tempura batter, and served with coleslaw and fries.
• T-Bones Great American Eatery (25 S. River Road, Bedford, 641-6100; 404 S. Main St., Concord, 715-1999; 39 Crystal Ave., Derry, 434-3200; 77 Lowell Road, Hudson, 882-6677; 1182 Union Ave., Laconia, 528-7800; 311 S. Broadway, Salem, 893-3444; t-bones.com) uses crispy haddock for its fish & chips, which are served with coleslaw and tartar sauce.
• Tailgate Tavern & Marketplace (28 Portsmouth Ave., Stratham, 580-2294, tailgatetavernnh.com) uses North Atlantic haddock filets for its fish & chips, which are hand-dipped in a house made tempura batter and golden fried, then served with fries and coleslaw.
• Tandy’s Top Shelf Pub (1 Eagle Square, Concord, 856-7614, tandyspub.com) offers a fried haddock platter on its entree menu, served with fries and coleslaw.
• The Town Cabin Deli & Pub (285 Old Candia Road, Candia, 483-4888, towncabin.com) offers fish & chips on its seafood menu, featuring deep fried and battered haddock filet served with coleslaw and hand-cut fries.
• The Tuckaway Tavern & Butchery (58 Route 27, Raymond, 244-2431, thetuckaway.com) offers buttermilk fish & chips with fries, slaw and New England tartar sauce.
• Zachary’s Chop House (4 Cobbetts Pond Road, Windham, 890-5555, zacharyschophouse.com) offers lightly fried fish & chips with fresh cod.
