Ye who lives by the pen, dies by the pen.
Still, here are some unbiasedopinions.

• Hurricane, Kennebunkport: "This romantic restaurant owes its success to its owners' romance." by Monica Wood, Dining Down East, Down East, The Magazine of Maine, June 2004 [review]
  
  
• "Hurricane: dazzling menu, tantalizing exercises in choice" by C.Z. Cramer, Taste & Tell, Maine Sunday Telegram, June 30, 2002 [review]

• "The food matches the view at Ogunquit's Hurricane" by M. Eve Elzenga, Taste & Tell, Maine Sunday Telegram, October 18, 1998 [review]

• A four-star rating from The Lowell Sun. "No warnings are needed for this Hurricane, just reservations." [review]

• A "Best Short-List Award" from Wine Enthusiast, March, 1995

  "An ongoing guide to the wine-friendliest restaurants in America. Dedicated to the notions that superior cuisine is instrumental to wine enjoyment... that good wine service means more than pulling the cork and refilling glasses... that wine lists depend more on value and quality of selections than sheer length... and that proper storage is necessary to ensure maximum pleasure from any given bottle." [review]

  Hurricane Restaurant
  Perkins Cove, Ogunquit, Maine
  New American
  75 wine selections, 500 bottles. Natural subterranean cellar.
  Thirty different wines by the glass, several food and wine match suggestions, monthly wine dinners and wine specials at very reasonable prices. Lack of vintages on the list is a brow-raiser, but where else can you get six courses with six wines for $35*, including tax and tip!

  *This was a 1995 price. Guess what? It went up. Call for details or check our Wine Dinner schedule here on our web site for more details.

• Eight awards from the Wine Spectator

  The Wine Spectator "Award of Excellence." This restaurant is honored by the Wine Spectator for having one of the most outstanding restaurant wine lists in the world. Marvin R. Shanken, Editor and Publisher, Wine Spectator

• "Nouvelle Ogunquit" by Wayne Curtis, a cover story in Down East magazine. Wayne is a big hot-shot travel writer for the New York Times now. We're honored he said such nice things about our restaurant. [review]

• Enthusiastic review by Yankee Magazine. "The best restaurants come into their own over time-like Hurricane in Perkins Cove." [review]

• Yankee Magazine's Travel Guide gave Hurricane an "Editor's Pick" award, too!

  Yankee Magazine's Travel Guide to New England. "The 1997 Edition of the Travel Guide to New England is proud to announce that Hurricane, Ogunquit, Maine was selected as a 1997 'Editor's Pick,' making it one of the outstanding reasons to visit New England."

• See what Yankee Traveler likes about coast-of-Maine dining - Hurricane style - in one of their "Reviewer's Roundups."

  In a town full of restaurant clichés, Hurricane is like a breath of fresh air (no pun intended). Windows all around give the dining rooms a summerhouse feel, and the seaside panorama is striking-even in a coastline with no shortage of views. Starters, such as five-onion soup with gorgonzola crust, are on the menu all day. Ditto of what the restaurant calls "small plates"-lobster cakes with tomato-cilantro salsa and crab rangoon (sic). At lunch the roster includes everything from char-grilled burger (dolled up with red pepper chutney) to shrimp and fresh fruit salad with raspberry vinaigrette. Dinner is more elaborate: whole crispy fish with black Oriental bean sauce and pan-roasted duck with wild rice pancakes and sun-dried cherry demiglacé.

• World of Wines Festival, Best Wine List Awards, "Merit Award," Hurricane Restaurant, Restaurant Hospitality magazine, The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel. (We have received three awards to date.) [review]

• Let's meet the chef with "Hurricane Chefs Cook Up a Storm" by Catharine Sengel, Journal Tribune Weekend. [review]

• "Going Public" by Kerri Conan in Restaurant Business, January 20, 1993, shortly after we first launched the Ogunquit Hurricane Restaurant on the Maine Coast in 1993. [review]

• The New York Times: Kitchen Bookshelf, May 22, 1996. Florence Fabricant nicely notices our executive chef's indispensable little book, "Lobster Tales." [review]

• We go way back with, "At Hurricane, Any Choice Is a Great Choice" by D.B. Eberhart, Taste & Tell, Maine Sunday Telegram, December 19, 1993. [review]

• In The Galley: "Visiting Hurricane Restaurant - a Serendipitous Decision" by Joan Harlow, New Hampshire Seacoast Times, Sunday, June 13, 1993 [review]

• "The Coast of Maine Book: A Complete Guide" by Rick Ackermann and Kathryn Buxton. On page 133 in their Restaurants and Food Purveyors section they say: "Chef Brooks MacDonald gets his seafood fresh off the cove's fishing boats." And it's true! [review]

• And the quirky, eclectic book, "The Best Places To Kiss: A Romantic Travel Guide" by Pamela P. Hegarty, thinks we rate, too. Just come and try it! [review]