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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #266 on: February 09, 2025, 10:11:26 AM »
Don't recall the wine list but their food is great.
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #267 on: February 10, 2025, 07:47:33 AM »
The wine list was so so, but that isn't a factor for me at all.  A massive wine list usually means a ton of wines I would never order because they are priced out of existence.

Food and service work for me.  Our server recommended the swordfish which usually is dry and tasteless, here it was the opposite.  My wife had a "lobstah roll".

The server gave us his email, he's a Red Sox fan and I'm hoping to go back and see a game with him in June maybe.  I left a $100 cash tip on a $200 meal.
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« Reply #268 on: February 10, 2025, 09:36:06 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on February 10, 2025, 07:47:33 AM
The wine list was so so, but that isn't a factor for me at all.  A massive wine list usually means a ton of wines I would never order because they are priced out of existence.

Food and service work for me.  Our server recommended the swordfish which usually is dry and tasteless, here it was the opposite.  My wife had a "lobstah roll".

The server gave us his email, he's a Red Sox fan and I'm hoping to go back and see a game with him in June maybe.  I left a $100 cash tip on a $200 meal.
Absolutely. I prefer a shorter, well curated wine list.  Oh, and if there's no French wine on your wine list, it's unlikely I'll ever return to your restaurant.
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« Reply #269 on: February 10, 2025, 09:42:44 AM »
I almost always ask the server for recommendations

usually works out very well

I'd like to see a game in Fenway some fine day
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #270 on: February 10, 2025, 09:49:59 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on February 10, 2025, 09:36:06 AM
Absolutely. I prefer a shorter, well curated wine list.  Oh, and if there's no French wine on your wine list, it's unlikely I'll ever return to your restaurant.
Depends on the kind of restaurant of course, but I haven't seen a medium to higher priced restaurant without French wines in ... a long time.  

It's a "mark of distinction" even if the wines they feature are mundane.
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« Reply #271 on: February 10, 2025, 10:04:37 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on February 10, 2025, 09:49:59 AM
Depends on the kind of restaurant of course, but I haven't seen a medium to higher priced restaurant without French wines in ... a long time. 

It's a "mark of distinction" even if the wines they feature are mundane.

Some of the high end restaurants I've been to, at least around here, focus solely on California wine.  There are certainly some good ones but it's... limiting... to say the least.

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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #272 on: February 10, 2025, 10:10:31 AM »
I probably would avoid those places once I learned of this.  I don't know of any here.  Some places that would run $100 for dinner for two without wine have a fairly sparse but OK wine list.  Some have a "flashy wine list" which I almost dislike more.

We had one meal at a place called Eddie V's in Boston which was OK, they had a splashy wine list, and a prominently featured bottle of Louis XIII.  They are part of the Darden Group. 

I'm "on the wagon" for now except weekends and travel, or trying to be, but a week in Paris will upend that no doubt.  We have a lot of dinners scheduled with friends.
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #273 on: February 10, 2025, 10:15:15 AM »
Eddie V's?
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« Reply #274 on: February 10, 2025, 10:21:14 AM »
Boston | Locations | Eddie V's Prime Seafood Restaurant
Boston | Locations | Eddie V's Prime Seafood Restaurant

Yeah, we sat at the bar and did Happy Hour which wasn't too pricey.  
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Re: Restaurants
« Reply #275 on: February 10, 2025, 10:31:26 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on February 09, 2025, 10:11:26 AM
Don't recall the wine list but their food is great.
Their wine list was "fine", not extensive, but the focus is seafood, as it should be.  I had an "alvarinho" from Portugal but the glass, it was nice enough.  I'd rather have really good food and OK wine than the reverse.

We also stopped at Legal Seafood during their Happy Hour, $2 oysters.  We had the same kind as at Atlantic and they were not as good, but cheaper of course.  Legal is a decent enough chain, they just are a bit short of elite in my book.

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« Reply #276 on: February 10, 2025, 10:36:20 AM »
not bad prices, even for the steaks

the carbs were pricey

I'd hafta try the warm goat cheese salad

lots of seafood from other places than the north atlantic
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« Reply #277 on: February 10, 2025, 10:37:45 AM »
We've been to Eddie V's. It's OK. That group owns a lot of concepts, most of which we've been to.
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« Reply #278 on: February 10, 2025, 10:43:45 AM »
Eddie V's started here in Austin, then eventually sold out to that group. It's always had very good food. I can usually find something on their wine list that I like that isn't crazy expensive.

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« Reply #279 on: February 10, 2025, 10:57:54 AM »
We went for happy hour one time. Had filet sliders and oysters.
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