{"id":18833,"date":"2020-06-17T16:05:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T20:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=18833"},"modified":"2020-07-09T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T17:25:40","slug":"the-floating-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-floating-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"The Floating Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=sg20_digital_edition&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=152&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If a visiting guest asks for a <b>fanciful seafood dinner<\/b> that screams Portland, where do you go?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">By Colin W. Sargent<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">My nephew<strong> Russell Davis<\/strong> is a celebrity mixologist. You can still catch him on <em>Bar Rescue<\/em>; he\u2019s been voted Bartender of the Year; he developed the Zero-Gravity martini glass. His breakaway talent? He knows his trade down deep, listens when you describe your dream of a drink, then makes it come true. On <em>The View<\/em>, he created a cocktail for Whoopi Goldberg that won her over\u2014even after she told him she wasn\u2019t thirsty!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So when Russell swept into Maine with, \u201cIf I have just one night here, where should we go? I\u2019m hoping for something specific to Portland and nowhere else. A place with a real hook,\u201d I listened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We took him to <strong>DiMillo\u2019s on the Water<\/strong>, serving lunch and dinner on a restored 1941 car ferry that\u2019s taken passengers from New Castle, Delaware, to Pennsylvania; Norfolk to Hampton, Virginia; and Newport to Jamestown, Rhode Island, according to DiMillos.com. In between, the ferry\u2019s been a clubhouse for the Setauket Yacht Club at Port Jefferson, New York, and a youth art colony in Pawtucket.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DiMillo\u2019s floats our boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[605,1079,1080],"class_list":["post-18833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dimillos","tag-dimillos-on-the-water","tag-russell-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18967,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18833\/revisions\/18967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}