Top of the Hub

3/13/10
Top of the Hub with my girl friends for a girls night out before spring break!
Our reservation was at 8:00pm for the high reservation demand at this restaurant.
The scenery was beautiful -- we faced outside facing Charles River, MIT, and Harvard. The waitor first "showed" us around Boston as we took a seat at our table.

The restaurant was energetic with lots of customers. Many couples and family, too (on a Wednesday night!). It wasn't too loud or anything, but it was perfect.

Bread: white bread and brown bread with raisins. Surprisingly the white bread was better.

First course:
Romaine wedge Creamy herb dressing, Cherry tomato, Crispy Westphalian Ham
It was just a typical salad that was put together elegantly. The romaine lettace was very fresh and crispy, though.
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Tomato Bisque Great hill blue cheese fritter
The blue cheese is not a big part of it. Bisque over the salad, for sure.

Second Course:
Seared scallops. Warm fingerling potato salad, salsa verde, chorizo emulsion
The scallops were AMAZING. Nicely roasted and it was perfect. The potato salad wasn't something like a potatoe salad. Roasted sliced potatoes with herbs.
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Grilled colorado 12oz lamb chop. Roasted garlic, calamata olives sauce, spinach and goat cheese lasagna
None of us had this.
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Hand cut tagliatelle pasta. Shrimp scampi, parmesan cream, basil lemon oil.
My friend added salt to it and that added a lot of flavor to it.

Dessert:
Creme Brulee
Great. Big. Very sweet, though. My friend couldn't finish it all beacuse it was so rich. Vanilla beans visible!
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Cherry napoleon. Kirsch brandy anglaise
The pie crust wasn't the greatest. But I did like the cheese and the cherry part of it.