Wednesday, 4/24/24

 For breakfast I just walked to the local cafe, Tatte and picked up a couple of (serviceable) pastries and coffee.  We lounged around the apartment until it was time to head to the Silver Dove for our lunch of full English tea. I  don't love the drink tea, but it wasn't bad (milk and sugar helped). You start with scones with jam and clotted cream (currant scones in this case), then a fancy little tower of treats: cucumber sandwiches, smoked salmon on seeded crackers, Vadouvan coronation chicken, snap pea canape with stracciatella and pesto (good but the snap pea flavor dominated over everything else), deviled egg with pepper jelly and giancule (delicious!), carrot cake with brown butter-cream cheese frosting, elderflower macaron, rhubarb tart,  and chocolate profiterole with pistachio. The slightly off thing is that the whole place is gluten free. It was  fine for most things, but the scone and the crust for the rhubarb tart suffered.

terrible but you get the idea

So after that fancy little interlude we walked over to Quincy market to do a bit of shopping, and made our leisurely way home. While wandering through the North End Jessica had the brilliant idea of a second lunch at Pizzeria Regina! After all, the tea was really only about 16 bites of food....Anyway, we split a small pizza and thus fortified walked to the apartment and sampled the pastries we also somehow picked up at Mike's.  My rum cake was pretty good but I was getting pretty full, TBH.

For dinner we decided to try Moon Bar; Mooncusser was on our list but since we weren't that hungry after two lunches and some pastries, it made more sense to try the a la carte menu. I had a lovely cocktail with gin, ginger, coconut, nutmeg and creole spices (I think?); sounded weird, tasted great. Then we split: marinated halibut with avocado, tomatillo and tostones, which was like the best guacamole but now with fish;  yellowfin tuna with snap peas,  red chili salsa, tangerine and papadam; flank steak with yucca chips, a creamy salsa verde and what was oddly the star, a marinated cabbage and cucumber salad. These were all outstanding. I wasn't blown away by banana ice cream with dulce de leche wafters and sesame chocolate sauce, but I knew going into it that I don't really like banana flavored things. Anyhow, it was a great meal and I bet the full prix fixe is even better. Nice walk home through the public garden then into sweats for more tv time.

The server didn't want to serve my cocktail up but I didn't care