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We had a nice brunch at home: seared salmon, ramen, and sauteed
vegetables.
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We walked a bit in the afternoon. It was chilly.
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We walked by Burdick's, a chocolate shop
I've eaten stuff from before, and ordered hot chocolate. It was thick
and very chocolaty hot chocolate. I'm glad I had the smallest serving,
about the size of half a cup--it was enough for me.
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| Garden at the Cellar
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For dinner, upon a friend's recommendation, we headed to Garden at the Cellar.
It served us fresh, good food. On my scale, I'd give the restaurant a 3-.
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Garden at the Cellar is a cute, long restaurant with a brick wall,
festooned with mirrors, opposite a bar that runs most of the length of the
dining room.
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We started with a basket of decent, warm, crusty bread, accompanied by a
creamy butter (infused with something) that was so good I asked to take it
home. Our waitress agreed without any hesitation.
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We shared a starter special of fries decorated with parmesan and sea
salt. Though pretty good, it was so salty we couldn't finish it between
the two of us.
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Next came cod cakes (actually balls), moist and, enlivened by a squeeze of
lemon, clearly fresh. The accompanying salad was definitely good as well.
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The seasonal vegetable risotto, in this first week of March, turned out to
be beets and goat cheese. This was well executed. The entire dish was a
dark red. The risotto wasn't slimy, as some risottos are want to be.
The flavor from and in the beets was clear, and the goat cheese provided a
pleasant undercurrent. I don't enjoy goat cheese. Yet, they put in just the
right amount of goat cheese, in the correct style/quality, that it worked
well here.
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The flatbread pizza of mushrooms and ricotta, topped with arugula, was
interesting and fairly decent.
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At the end of the meal, they delivered to use broken pieces of very
dark chocolate.
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The total was $23/person including tax and tip. We didn't order any
drinks.
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