Hungry Poirot: Lunch at Sportello

ボストンでは今日からレストランウィークが始まりました。前菜、メインディッシュ、デザートのコースがランチなら $20、ディナーなら $33 で食べられます。今回も期間中いくつか予約を入れています。

In Boston, the restaurant week started from today! In many of the good restaurants 3-course meals are served for $20 for lunch and $33 for dinner. I made several reservations during the restaurant week period!

今日ランチを食べに来たのは Sportello というカジュアルなイタリアンレストラン。ボストンの有名シェフ、Barbara Lynch がオーナー (Menton, No. 9 Park 等のオーナーでもあります)。

For the lunch, we came to Sportello, a casual Italian restaurant owned by Barbara Lynch (a famous Boston chef who also owns several other restaurants including Menton, No. 9 Park, etc).

パンとチーズ、オリーブオイル。

Bread, whipped ricotta cheese, preserved grapes and olive oil.

ここのコーヒーは私好みの味。

I like the taste of this coffee (bitter rather than sour).

二人ともレストランウィークのメニューから注文。私はまず、ホワイトビーンのスープ。クリーミーです。

Both my husband and I ordered from the restaurant week menu. I chose the white bean soup for the first course. Creamy and tasty.

トマトと蟹入りのパスタ。トマト (多分) を練りこんだニョッキのようなパスタですが、名前を忘れてしまいました。確か tomato raffetta とメニューにあったと思うのですが...。ドライトマトが甘くておいしい！

My second course was the gnocchi like pasta with Jonah crab, sun dried tomatoes and some kind of green. I forgot the name of the pasta, but believe it was tomato raffetta... The pasta was soft and the tomatoes were sweet - I liked the dish.

最後に小麦粉の入っていないチョコレートのガナッシュ。甘さ控えめで濃厚。

And for the dessert, I chose the flour-less chocolate ganache. This was very dense and rich, but not too sweet. I am not a big fan of chocolate, but this was OK.

夫は前菜に海老入りのルッコラサラダ。

My husband's first course was the arugula salad with shrimp.

メインにはスズキの包み焼。

The grilled sea bass was his second dish.

中はこんな感じ。スズキはジューシーでなかなかいけます。

Inside the paper, the sea bass and some vegetables were nicely grilled. The fish was moist and lightly flavored.

そしてデザートにカップケーキ。私はカップケーキはあまり好きではないのですが、これはそんなに悪くないかも。一人 $20 でこれなら満足です。

And for the dessert, the cupcake of the day. Neither of us like cupcakes very much (there were only two choices for the dessert), but this was better than I expected - the cake was light and the frosting was not too sweet. For $20, our meals were not too bad.

レストランの一角にかケーキやサンドイッチなどのテイクアウト用カウンターがあります。

At the corner of the restaurant is the bakery for takeout.

ピスタチオのメレンゲ (真ん中のガラスケースに入っているもの) がおいしそうだったので一つ買ってみました (後で食べてみると中がもちっとしていておいしかったです)。

Pistachio meringues (the middle glass case) looked great, so we got one (we tasted it later, and it was very good).

更にこのオレンジのタルトも購入。

And we also got one orange tart.

食後は Poirot 君と一緒に付近をお散歩。今日は曇り空で風も強かったのですが、気温は昨日よりも暖かく格好のお散歩日和。

After the lunch, we walked around the area with Poirot. It was cloudy and windy, but warm today - a good day for walking.