A three-month refresh brings enhanced views of Providence to an iconic city restaurant
Gail Ciampa- The updated restaurant features a refreshed raw bar, an expanded bar area, and enhanced city views.
- The menu boasts additions such as crudos, tartares and a selection of sushi.
- Hemenway's continues to offer its classic seafood dishes, including live Maine lobsters and a variety of entrees.
An iconic seafood restaurant overlooking the Providence River has reopened after a three-month refresh of the 40-year-old space.
Hemenway's Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar at 121 South Main St. in Providence, closed after New Year's Eve. They reopened on March 5.
New is a refreshed raw bar with a backdrop of white quartz and new lobster tanks. It remains at the front of the restaurant. Also new is the bar area, which includes three high-top bar booths. Enhanced views of the city are now visible throughout the restaurant.
New menu items have also been added to the raw bar. They include a selection of crudos, raw fish or seafood dressed with a combination of citrus, vinegar, olive oil and seasonings. New is tuna with black garlic aioli, soy-ginger vinaigrette and pickled shallot; and fluke with cured egg yolks, crispy capers, Banyuls vinaigrette and sprouts.
Also new are tartares including Yellowfin Tuna with harissa, cured cucumbers, hazelnut, roasted red peppers and micro greens; Georges Bank Scallop with mango-ginger vinaigrette, radish, cucumber, pickled onion and wonton chip; and Vegetarian Dressed Cucumbers with sesame oil, sambal oelek, peanut, crispy shallot and garlic.
New is a shared plate of Golden Osetra Caviar with petite waffles, creme fraiche, shallot, chives and sieved egg.
A selection of sushi is also available, including a Jonah Crab Roll, Native Lobster Roll and King Salmon Roll.
Other share plates from the raw bar include the traditional Hemenway’s Shellfish Platter with lobster, shrimp, littlenecks and oysters; and a Shellfish Tower with two 1¼-pound lobsters, shrimp, littlenecks, oysters and lump crab.
Hemenway’s offers live Maine Lobsters from 1¼ to 5 pounds, available stuffed with shrimp, scallop and crab.
Entrees from the kitchen include Honey-Aleppo Half Chicken, Lobster Tortellini, Filet Mignon, New York Sirloin and Bourbon-Brined Pork Chop.
“Hemenway’s is an institution, and as such, it was important to us that we preserved much of its iconic look,” said Nicole Christie in a press release. She is regional manager of the Newport Restaurant Group, which owns the restaurant.
The Newport Restaurant Group bought Hemenway’s Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar in 2009. The seafood restaurant was founded by Ned Grace in 1985 but was owned by Darden Restaurants by the time of the sale.
Fresh-catch seafood is locally sourced from New Bedford, Boston, Gloucester, Point Judith and Rockland, Maine, and Hemenway’s farmers and food artisans include Wild Atlantic Seafood, Farm Fresh Rhode Island, Walrus & Carpenter, Rhode Island Mushroom Company, Narragansett Bay Lobster, Allen Farms, Wright’s Dairy, Foley Fish, Andrade’s Catch, Seven Stars Bakery, Newport Lobster, Four Town Farm, Kyler Seafood Blackbird Farms and Yacht Club Soda.
For more information, visit hemenwaysrestaurant.com.