On what was surely one of the last warm evenings of the year, the Carnivore and I headed to Sunapee to check out the Blue Canoe, a dockside restaurant that opened amid plenty of buzz over the summer.

Scores for Blue Canoe

Atmosphere: 19/20

Menu: 18/20

Service: 18/20

Food: 18/20

Value: 17/20

TOTAL: 90/100

It’s at the former location of the Anchorage, a popular mainstay of the area’s dining scene for many years.

The Blue Canoe has made a promising start to continuing that legacy. If you’re out for a foliage drive in the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee region, you couldn’t ask for a prettier spot to welcome fall in all its glory.

We arrived shortly after 5:30 p.m. on a Monday and were happy to snag a table on the deck, where polywood-lumber tables, a blue canopy and white lights created an a

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