Best place to have a gourmet meal and buy a used car
Food on the North Shore traditionally has tended toward fried clams and New England boiled dinner. So the
appearance, in 1999, of Yanks, an elegant new restaurant in quiet, moneyed Beverly Farms (okay, it's nested
between a plumbing-and-heating franchise and Beverly Farms Motors) brought out diners in droves. And
German-born chef Erhard Wendt's superb Continental cuisine pleased all. The catch is that the upscale,
glossy-yet-tranquil Yanks used to be the display area for a Cadillac-Packard dealership. Now Beverly Farms
Motors keeps its wares across the street, where they share a parking lot with Yanks (diners' vehicles are
the ones with license plates). Yanks's seared sea scallops with saffron sauce, spinach-stuffed portobello
mushrooms, and garlic mashed potatoes are to die for. And last time we looked, there were several vintage
Mercedes with which to chase them.
Yanks, 717 Hale Street, Beverly, (978) 232-9898.
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