Ten minutes later a busboy brought the table a plate of fried calamari.

A much better pick was the fried calamari, so light and tender we couldn't stop eating it.

"I'm trying to decide if I want to start with the fried calamari or the scungili."

The fried calamari ($3.48) was the single most outstanding dish we tried.

The fried calamari is done to perfection, light, tender and well seasoned.

"That's a matter of how thick one's skin is," he said over fried calamari at a Cambridge restaurant.

The fried calamari are excellent (as they ought to be at $15 a plate).

Oh well, good fried calamari goes a long way toward making such sins forgivable.

Tender crisp fried calamari ranked second among the main courses.

The fried calamari looked more like cheese fries in presentation and proportion.