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| Hudson loves whales |
We headed into Hudson this morning to visit a town we have become quite familiar with. It's an antique mecca, though this time we were not antiquing. Instead we headed down side streets to examine the architecture and the regeneration of this old whaling town. Even though it is far up the Hudson River, during the War of 1812 it became a major whaling port out of reach to the Royal Navy.
The old streets are fascinating with their variety of architecture from early 19th century Federalist to late high Victorian gingerbread and Queen Anne with a few 20th century structures casually built among them.
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| Moto Machine Coffee--lunch is great. Avoid the coffee shop |
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| Moto Kate's egg sandwich with goat cheese and salad with panies, cucumber soup with cheese waffles. |
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| Cascades does fine coffee. |
We had lunch at a place called a Moto Machine Coffee, although we ate from a breakfast and lunch bar that operates as a co-tenant in the building along with a motorcycle dealer, motorcycle-related clothes shop and coffee shop. We fully recommend the excellent and lovely cuisine from the lunch bar, shown as Moto Kate on the sales slip, but found the coffee bar unfriendly and unwilling to even try to produce Ben's XXdry skim cappuccino. "The owner says we should only do what we know how to do," said the barista. How sad! We walked out without coffee and then found exactly what Ben wanted at the Cascades just up Warren Street. We wish Kate well with her lunch bar--the soup and sandwiches are excellent and pretty. Perhaps the coffee bar will become more open to innovation?
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| The Blue Plate does have specials |
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| Brook trout for Ben |
After our long walk through Hudson, we came back to our friends, read and rested and then headed to the Blue Plate (yes, we had a special) in Chatham, NY. The Blue Plate is in an old hotel building and serves simple but very well done American food, with an excellent (affordable) wine list and beer and ale from the local craft brewery around the corner. John and friend Andy had hamburgers, Ben had a superb broiled trout. We all started with an excellent shrimp and corn chowder, slightly sweet from the corn, but full of shrimpy bits, bacon and the taste of fresh corn.
Tomorrow, Friday, we head to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA) in North Adams, then across Vermont and New Hampshire to the Maine coast. We look forward to seeing the change of colors of the local trees, which has been very evident in our four days here.
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