Monday, 4/22/24

 Breakfast at the Friendly Toast...I was excited to try the tots that I didn't get last time; sadly they were pretty tepid but the taste was excellent. I had an enormous V8 to keep the scurvy at bay.

Two museums (the MFA and the Isabella Stewart Gardner) was perhaps overkill, but the Korean exhibit at the MFA was VERY cool. Due to poor planning, we just grabbed a snack at the cafeteria. Nothing even worth mentioning.

I was having a vert hard time choosing where to go for dinner, but finally settled on Saltie Girl, which I had been really wanting to try on out aborted October trip. So, another chic seafood place, but very different vibes (a pretty pink and green space in the Back Bay). We learned our lesson this time and skipped entrees and split a bunch of smaller plates instead:

More Oysters

Tuna carpaccio; lime leaf oil / pistachio / fried capers / pickled red onions (I am nothing if not predictable;)

Yellowtail: grapefruit / orange / pickled ramps / lime leaf oil / trout roe / green onion

French bread with sea salt butter

Fried Artichokes: garlic aioli / smoked idiazabal cheese / chimichurri (I can't make these caps disappear!!)

OK, fine all caps it is. we also had crab toast (toasts are apparently all the rage) that was good if impossible to eat until i just deconstructed mine. managed to at least split a dessert because we couldn't resist the words "brown butter almond cake". 

I can't not mention the cocktail with gin and shiso because it was arguably the best thing i had and it's a wonder i only had one.

after dinner we walked over to eataly but shouldn't have. it's in a big mall at the prudential center and just wasn't that impressive. nothing tempted us. we are a tough crowd.