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An anticipatory buzz fills the dining room at Newburyport’s Brine restaurant. Snippets of conversation cover the merits of different cocktails and who makes the area’s best pizza while diners await the first course in the restaurant’s ongoing “Culinary Opus” tasting menu series. Servers fan out and deliver dishes of kitchen-roasted sweet and salty nuts and tall pints of house-made beer, the start of a 15-course extravaganza featuring everything from local uni and spider crab to duck en croute. It’s a heady food experience unique in Newburyport, a city better known for clam chowder and casual American eateri
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