That’s the unexpected surprise waiting at Cider Mill & Fryer Tuck Chicken, a charming log cabin hideaway tucked along Portland’s Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It was a 1960s New Dorp landmark – a restaurant shaped like a circus tent with a clown perched on the roof. At Pizza Clown, you could get a slice and a soda for a quarter. By ...