restaurant | River's world…..

I remember eating at Friendly’s as a child.

It wasn’t haute cuisine but the sandwiches were halfway decent and every meal ended with an ice cream sundae so no one really cared.

The other day when my friend and I were out shopping, it was literally the only place around so we stopped in for lunch.

I vaguely remembered their Big Beef being a sizable burger and decided to take a trip down memory lane.

That was a big mistake.

What the holy hell!

At first I thought they’d fried an egg on my burger but that was cheese.

A cheese ‘skirt’ to be precise. And though you’d think it would be hard to go wrong with half a plate full of cheese… they managed, because it was awful. Greasy on top, hard as rock on the bottom.

And the Big Beef?

The only thing Big was my disappointment because the Beef was practically non existent… not to mention well done and crunchy.

The waiter at this restaurant may have been friendly, but the food certainly wasn’t.

A sister restaurant of our go to favorite place opened recently in Falmouth and I’ve been dying to check it out.

So on a sunny late afternoon last week, we did just that.

Welcome to the Sicilian Table.

Like our favorite restaurant, no expense was spared when it came to interior design.

It was bright and cheerful with lots of wood, stone, rattan and soothing neutral colors.

It was a good sized two floor space, but offered many intimate seating choices.

Did I mention there were giant artsy fartsy fish flying overhead?

These bold beauties were hung here and there and were dramatic to say the least.

I’m guessing this lighting is meant to pay homage to Maine’s coastal lifestyle by imitating jellyfish…

This oddly placed ceramic tile wonder … yes, if you zoom in you can see they’re all individual pieces… led to the rest rooms.

And while it was a lovely restaurant inside, the location they chose struck me as odd. While it’s sister sits on the water, this place is the bottom two floors of a law office building smack on Route 1… the busiest coastal route in the state. Falmouth is a wealthy town with multi million dollar estates on the shore. This pricey restaurant will do well, but it would have been nice to have a better view from its windows than the parking of the strip mall it sits in front of.