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RW - Dante - woohoo!
I’ll do the best I can with this review. I can’t remember everything as vividly as I usually do because of all the chit-chat with the adjoining table.
This was my first visit to dante. I liked the space very much, particularly for a hotel restaurant. Of course restaurants of that ilk in and around Boston have vastly improved over the years. The service overall was very good. We had to request the side dish we had ordered, but that was a small blemish. Major props for describing the dishes as they were served. I can always remember that I ordered Arctic char, but sometimes forget that it’s beluga lentil that is nestled upon, but that’s another restaurant.
I started with the gnocchi with duck ragu, sour cherries, ricotta salata and duck fat frites (sic). If you compartmentalize the gnocchis themselves, they were decent, but a far cry from what I enjoyed at Sage the week previous. Overall the dish was a hit, thanks to a healthy dose of duck and one (thus the ‘sic’) glorious duck fat frite.
Like laura jean, I opted for the salmon, to keep my concentration on fish entrees during RW intact. The accompaniments and the polenta in particular melded nicely with the fish. I would have enjoyed it a tad more if the salmon had been cooked about two minutes more, but that’s just a thing I have with salmon.
I opted for the ‘ciocolato’ dolce and had to look up stracciatella to find out what they were saying about my panna cotta. I’m still not clear on how it applied but suffice it to day it was simple, but tasty. And then there was –as gini pointed out -- the donut. Kind of a delightful little beignet. Not a profiterole, mind you, but at least in the same zip code!
I’d also like to give a nod to Waiter B for recommending a really nice Madeira as an after dinner drink. It’s one of the two or three alcoholic beverages I haven’t previously tried and it was very nice.
Sorry I can’t provide feedback on the soup, we were too busy studying the demographics of the clientele to share opinions. A lurker no more, now you have to deal with my strange and sometimes flippant commentary. But it’s always in good fun!
