Calling all patrons. Calling all patrons.

Turner’s Seafood is a classic, New England restaurant that nails every aspect you’d want and expect. From Clams Casino and Bay Scallops through to all the usual Lobster favorites, it’s been a staple weekend lunchtime haunt of ours for years.

But while the food is great - it’s the location, service and all round ambience that elevates Turner’s to something altogether more wonderful. Because the location for Turner’s is none other than the former Lyceum Hall in Salem - a location rather better knowing historically as where Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his first long distant telephone call on February 12th, 1822. And that makes Turner’s not just a pleasing gastronomic experience, but one that oozes the stories that this former lecture hall, helped create too.

Dark wood and discreet lighting, starched white table clothes, and an ever present wood fire puffing out wafts of seasoned pine complement the gentle murmur of happy patrons. For the best seating, as is often the case, request a bar high top or table by the fire on the right, rather than the main dining room. But wherever you sit, just enjoy a location with decades of impact on the world, in the heart of the always historic Salem.