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Article: SIDE DISHES
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- June 3, 2009
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Pickwick's Pick
YE OLDE ENGLAND INNE GOES "GASTRO"
For a quarter century, Chris and Lyruie Francis have run Mr. Pickwick's at Ye Olde England Inne with an emphasis on authenticity: steak, kidney and oyster pie, and bangers 'n' mash were standard fare. But back in the Old Country, something happened to British menus: the dawn of the "gastropub," where fresh ingrethents and ideas meet cozy comfort food. To keep up with the times, the Francises have hired Pete Lech to refine their menu.
Lech, who chafes at the "chef title, made many stops between his native Detroit and Vermont - including ones in Mexico and Ireland. An NCAA fencing scholarship allowed him to study microbiology before ...