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[learnedax]

For our anniversary tpau and I finally tried out Blue Ginger. They are, as we had been told, amazingly good. She had the shiitake and foie gras shumai, the butterfish, and the super-chocolatey cake; I had the seared tuna, the duck with peach, and the peach & cherry upside down cake. All were fabulous, though I was particularly pleasantly surprised by the upside down cake. I could have eaten far too much of it...

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[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

I like Blue Ginger a lot, when I'm in the mood for the Pacific Fusion thing, and because I like the room. There are a bunch of other places around you might try for special occasions:

Elephant Walk: good food, and the inside of the place on Beacon Street makes me feel like a Rajah in 19th century India. Very good wine list, but not so geared towards the wine experience.

Lumiere: styles itself as a French Bistro experience. Make that a very expensive French Bistro experience. Food and wine are great, but the place is too noisy.

Harvest: I like the price fixe menu with the wine flights, and in the summer time, the outdoor atrium.

Henrietta's Table: for strictly the food, my favorite in Boston. They rely heavily on local produce where possible. Another cavern of a room, which I think is a plus.

Trochet: run by wine snobs, for wine snobs. They gear the menu around what they're pouring that night, and you get to mix and match flights.

Helmond: decent Afgani cooking, and another very good wine selection.

The Blue Room: good food, terrible physical plant. Sit at the chef's table, if you conceivably can. But given the company you keep, you already know all that.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Apropos of not much, the chef at Henrietta's Table used to have a kid in the same pre-school as my daughter.

Pot luck nights were, well, fabulous. Until her stuff was gone. :-)