Perennial dishes drawing tourists, new customers to R.I. eateries

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AGE-OLD FAVORITE: Joann Carlson, owner of Jo’s American Bistro in ­Newport, hold’s a plate of the restaurant’s famous fish and chips, a 50-year-old family recipe. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY
AGE-OLD FAVORITE: Joann Carlson, owner of Jo’s American Bistro in ­Newport, hold’s a plate of the restaurant’s famous fish and chips, a 50-year-old family recipe. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY
For $19.95, diners at Jo’s American Bistro in Newport can order a 50-year-old fish and chips recipe and experience a taste of the city as it was in the mid-20th century. “Newport is fish and chips” and this recipe “has been handed down from generation to generation,” said Joann Carlson, owner of the 5-year-old eatery…

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