{"id":35168,"date":"2024-10-30T16:25:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/?p=35168"},"modified":"2024-10-30T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:25:35","slug":"dig-in-rhode-island-monthlys-fall-river-food-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/dig-in-rhode-island-monthlys-fall-river-food-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig In: Rhode Island Monthly’s Fall River Food Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jamie Coelho with assistance by Lauren Clem and Dana Laverty<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall River Food Guide<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

While we\u2019ll never exhaust all the restaurant and dining options in Rhode Island, we thought it was high time we traverse the other big bridge over state lines to explore some foodie finds in Fall River, Massachusetts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fall River is a melting\u00a0pot of good food.\u00a0It\u2019s well known for its Portuguese cuisine, but everywhere you\u00a0turn, there\u2019s another market\u00a0or restaurant representing a\u00a0different culture. Not only\u00a0are there fabulous Portuguese restaurants, bakeries and food markets, there are also dining institutions for Polish pierogies, Coney Island\u00a0hot dogs, Italian-style grinders, Chinese chow\u00a0mein, Lebanese spinach pies, English pork pies,\u00a0gluten-free fare and so much more. The food\u00a0and culture all relate back to the whaling and textile industries that initially brought so many immigrants to this area.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Bedford was once the whaling capital of the world. Whaling ships picked up men from the Azores to work on the ships, and many of them settled in southeastern New England.\u00a0After the whaling industry declined, the textile\u00a0industry took off, and Fall River was the perfect place to establish mills due to its \u201cfalling river\u201d\u00a0\u2014 the Quequechan River \u2014 with its series of eight falls that created ample power for\u00a0industrialization. Factory and mill work brought\u00a0European immigrants from other countries to the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More Portuguese people later moved here to escape volcanic activity in the Azores and to avoid getting drafted into the Angolan Civil War, which ended Portuguese colonial rule in Africa. Many took jobs in the booming textile industry and other trades. Today, southeastern New England has the largest population of Portuguese people in the United States, with 46 percent of Fall River\u2019s population claiming Portuguese ancestry. We took a couple of days to explore the dining and food shopping scenes with several trusted tour guides, and here\u2019s what we found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to access the full guide, with pages of information about the best that Fall River has to offer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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