Welcome to the East of Suez Restaurant web site. We are in our 37th season here in Wolfeboro. We look forward to you joining us at this rare establishment founded by Charles & Norma Powell and operated by their family and dear friends from around the area and around the globe. We are pleased to serve you an eclectic sampling of exotic cuisine from across Asia and the South Pacific with occasional detours around the world. All our dishes are prepared to order with fresh, local produce, specialty condiments and internationally imported ingredients. Our menu is small, specifically so, to represent the time-honored favorites our patrons have grown to love over the years; however each evening we experiment by adding choice delicacies to our collection in much the way a traveler gathering mementos might do, if he ventured to explore the 'East of Suez'. Please relax and enjoy your dining experience, we hope you will indeed return to visit us again soon. What does "East of Suez" mean ? From Rudyard Kipling's "The Road to Mandalay" -During the days of the British "Raj", anywhere east of the Suez Canal was considered 'Asia'. Founding Chef, Charles Powell, selected this name as it reminded him of his father's extensive travels around the world as a photojournalist for Fox Movietown News in the thirties - adventures that Chef Powell often took with him as a child, and again in his own career as an international food and travel writer and cookbook author. Today, the name allows us to describe the random path from whence our recipes originate.