If a visiting guest asks for a fanciful seafood dinner that screams Portland, where do you go?

By Colin W. Sargent

My nephew Russell Davis is a celebrity mixologist. You can still catch him on Bar Rescue; he’s 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 The View, he created a cocktail for Whoopi Goldberg that won her over—even after she told him she wasn’t thirsty!

So when Russell swept into Maine with, “If I have just one night here, where should we go? I’m hoping for something specific to Portland and nowhere else. A place with a real hook,” I listened.

We took him to DiMillo’s on the Water, serving lunch and dinner on a restored 1941 car ferry that’s 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’s been a clubhouse for the Setauket Yacht Club at Port Jefferson, New York, and a youth art colony in Pawtucket.

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