July 25th-
Restaurant week......time to go out and explore culinary treasures with our taste buds. En Japanese Brasserie is gigantic inside. Is this Manhattan or Texas? I ordered from the special restaurant week menu. They brought me saki. I was pleased. they brought me sashimi. I was pleased. They brought me black cod......once again.....quite content. With it came miso soup, which bores me, and some blah rice sprinkled with some edamame......yipee....not impressed. I think the dessert was vanilla ice cream.....you can't get more exciting than that. All in all.....I think the food was good. I just need to order ala carte.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
French Roast
July 26th-
After we left the theater we were both starving, having not had the time to eat dinner. French Roast was on our way home. Who can resist a 24 hour bistro under those circumstances? Not me. It turned out to be the perfect place to get a couple of appetizers and glasses of wine to fill our bellies. We ordered the Duck Confite and the crabcakes.....neither of which was extraordinary, but both great choices at a time when typically your only choice is between McDonald's and a diner. The atmosphere was perfect for us....not to noisy, not too quiet, not too old, not too young...80's music on in the background. We left happy.
We had already been here once just for dessert, which was fine. Hey....its a 24 hour place, which is great when you're hungry at three or midnight.
After we left the theater we were both starving, having not had the time to eat dinner. French Roast was on our way home. Who can resist a 24 hour bistro under those circumstances? Not me. It turned out to be the perfect place to get a couple of appetizers and glasses of wine to fill our bellies. We ordered the Duck Confite and the crabcakes.....neither of which was extraordinary, but both great choices at a time when typically your only choice is between McDonald's and a diner. The atmosphere was perfect for us....not to noisy, not too quiet, not too old, not too young...80's music on in the background. We left happy.
We had already been here once just for dessert, which was fine. Hey....its a 24 hour place, which is great when you're hungry at three or midnight.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Otto
July 19th-
Italian, inexpensive, casual, consistently tasty.....great place to go to please kids or diners with unsophisticated palates, and those whose have been around the culinary block. The pizza is good and I was quite surprised and delighted to try the olive oil ice cream, which was the star dish for me.
Italian, inexpensive, casual, consistently tasty.....great place to go to please kids or diners with unsophisticated palates, and those whose have been around the culinary block. The pizza is good and I was quite surprised and delighted to try the olive oil ice cream, which was the star dish for me.
Commerce
July 18th-
Great new bistro in the village. Yum! Yum! Yum! There were five of us, and three courses.....I tried almost every one and everything was so much more sublime than I ever imagined it could be. Run! Go! This place rocks!
Great new bistro in the village. Yum! Yum! Yum! There were five of us, and three courses.....I tried almost every one and everything was so much more sublime than I ever imagined it could be. Run! Go! This place rocks!
Daniel
July 22nd-
Daniel- wow! Truly an escape into someone else's bourgeois fairy tale life! It was our anniversary and we wanted to go somewhere special, memorable....somewhere to get all dolled up for......somewhere we ordinarily wouldn't go. I chose Daniel. To Nathan's surprise and delight, I had car service pick us up and whisk us away to this culinary wonderland. Everything was very posh, very formal. The service was impeccable. The waiters performed. Our plates always touched the table in unison. Our main waiter said things like, "May I propose...." in his fancy songful voice, and nodded his head in a genteel sort of way as he disappeared to fetch things for us. We had a great table.....maybe the best. A little velvet cushy sofa of our very own in the corner of the main room, set off so we had a great view of everything.....and there was much to see....chandeliers, curtains, pillars.....everything a fancy place should possess. In this place, I definitely could not help but feel that this moment was special. I had originally intended to discuss all of the food in every tiny little detail......but really.....what's the point? Basically, the food was all good, but frankly, I don't need to pay quite this much for even better. Nothing really stood out as the best I have ever had in any category. Maybe my expectations were too high, but for me, the "ta da" of the place is all in the name and the fanciness of it all. In fact, I feel like the portions are way to large for a place that requires you to order their prescribed list of courses. I felt like a turkey being fattened for Thanksgiving dinner, tortured by the amount of food that appeared in front of me throughout the evening. I couldn't even enjoy it. I fully expected to have nightmares of sugar plums dancing around my head ....but with knives. Go once.....and earn the right to discuss it.
Daniel- wow! Truly an escape into someone else's bourgeois fairy tale life! It was our anniversary and we wanted to go somewhere special, memorable....somewhere to get all dolled up for......somewhere we ordinarily wouldn't go. I chose Daniel. To Nathan's surprise and delight, I had car service pick us up and whisk us away to this culinary wonderland. Everything was very posh, very formal. The service was impeccable. The waiters performed. Our plates always touched the table in unison. Our main waiter said things like, "May I propose...." in his fancy songful voice, and nodded his head in a genteel sort of way as he disappeared to fetch things for us. We had a great table.....maybe the best. A little velvet cushy sofa of our very own in the corner of the main room, set off so we had a great view of everything.....and there was much to see....chandeliers, curtains, pillars.....everything a fancy place should possess. In this place, I definitely could not help but feel that this moment was special. I had originally intended to discuss all of the food in every tiny little detail......but really.....what's the point? Basically, the food was all good, but frankly, I don't need to pay quite this much for even better. Nothing really stood out as the best I have ever had in any category. Maybe my expectations were too high, but for me, the "ta da" of the place is all in the name and the fanciness of it all. In fact, I feel like the portions are way to large for a place that requires you to order their prescribed list of courses. I felt like a turkey being fattened for Thanksgiving dinner, tortured by the amount of food that appeared in front of me throughout the evening. I couldn't even enjoy it. I fully expected to have nightmares of sugar plums dancing around my head ....but with knives. Go once.....and earn the right to discuss it.
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