Porto Call Takeout Shack in Stonington Offers Maine and Portuguese Seafood (and Cockatoos, Too)

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On a moonless night not too long ago, a lone boat chugged into Webb Cove in Stonington. It was late - almost 9 p.m. - very late by local standards. But twinkling white lights and the din of lively chatter on the shore had captured the captain's interest. For a moment as he drew near, he must have felt disoriented. Were those chirping birds he heard? Was this Maine, or had he magically crossed into some exotic wonderland?

Turns out that he did hear birds, he was in Maine, and he had also reached the Portuguese kitchen of chef Suzen Carter, who - despite the hour - was serving dinner at her Cockatoo Seafood Takeout.

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Porto Call Takeout Shack in Stonington Offers Maine and Portuguese Seafood (and Cockatoos, Too)

It's easy enough to say that Carter's food is the highlight of any evening spent eating at her outdoor tables. She serves the Maine regulars: crabmeat rolls, fried clams, chowders, steamers, mussels, lobster. Her particular specialties are Azorean: codfish balls, clam cakes, kale soup, bacalhau ha "Nina," which is a shredded codfish dish, and traditional paelha, a ...

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