Pesce Blue

Frommer's Review

Another upscale seafood eatery in downtown Portsmouth? Yes, and again it's a smashing success, thanks to a youthful drive that starts with ownership and trickles on down. Chef James Walter serves seafood and other dishes with a strong Italian accent. Lunch might be a piece of grilled flatbread topped with smoked salmon; a "salad" of mussels, San Marzano tomatoes, marinated olives, and capers; or a cut of pan-roasted haddock with baccala-whipped potatoes and ramps. Plenty of antipasti are available as well. Dinner entrees could include a crispy piece of sockeye salmon, lasagna with house lamb sausage, oil-poached halibut, a mixed seafood grill, a wild boar steak, a small plate of tuna tartare with pickled apples and capers (the small plates are great), or a whole salt-baked branzino. The house desserts include mascarpone-ricotta cheesecake, fennel-flavored panna cotta, molten chocolate cake, gelati, and a lovely olive oil-orange cake topped with vanilla cream.

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