As we were heading back to the Providence airport, after a visit to Newport, there was time for one more seafood stop. So I asked my friend, Mr. Google, where to find the best seafood, at lunch time, in Providence. And Dune Brothers Seafood appeared in the top five on several lists. Located on a corner lot in the Innovation District of downtown Providence, it is a downtown “beach shack”, with picnic table seating. The menu was concise – and I knew that my lovely wife would be having lobster (why miss it at this meal?), so I had to decide if I wanted a lobster roll also, or I was going to branch out.

Here’s the lobster roll. It was meaty, without too much sauce, served on a perfectly toasted roll. Some of the rolls she had this week were served with what looked like a tuna or chicken salad – small pieces of lobster with celery and mayo and spices. This one had large chunks of lobster in a tasty mayo-based sauce.

I decided to go a different route and went with the fish and chips. They had three fish choices – pollock : a fish with mild-sweet flavor, that is white and flaky, served with the skin on; cape shark: a dense white meaty fish, that is mild in flavor; or a bait box fish: these are whole, bone-in bait fish, which they say are “crispy and fun to eat” – sunfish that day. I went with the pollock.

The first surprise was that it was a whole fish – not the traditional strips I was expecting. This was a massive piece of fish and the battered skin was like the perfect piece of fried chicken – you could shatter it with your fork! The fish was piping hot, cooked all the way through, and so flaky it was hard to keep on a fork.

We did share a bit of our meals with each other – you can see in the photo above the chunk of claw meat on a bun and the perfect cook on the fish. Both meats were excellently cooked – I would have that fish again, today. A gentleman at the table next to us had the bait box – his fish was fried whole, like a soft shell crab and he was chowing down on it. I’m glad I went with the pollock. And the fries were excellent, as a bonus. What a perfect way to cap a trip to New England.