"You might as well be in Maine the moment you step into Nick’s Lobster House, near the terminus of Flatbush Avenue on Mill Basin, with views of houses on stilts across the water from the outdoor deck. The New England clam chowder is damn near perfect — not too thick or thin — and plenty of minced chowder clams fight with potato cubes in the roiling, off-white expanse." - Robert Sietsema