Allow me to first apologize for my spotty blogging of late. I just haven't been eating out all that much. Yeah, and I know i totally cheated with that TJ's blog entry a few days ago. But i just felt bad that i hadn't posted in a while. And Sue Min needs something to read when she's trying to avoid studying for her exams. But i promise to have some great blog entries for you next week...American Seasons on Nantucket, Radius here in Boston and who knows what else. Cause my parents are coming! and you know what that means...someone else is going to pay for my food! Yeah! And they're bringing me some yummy treats from la.
Ok, so back to this entry. Last Friday, Jayna, Leah and I headed over to Lineage in Coolidge Corner to celebrate Jayna finishing up her studio project. Leah and I had been trying to go to Lineage for some time now. The owner and chef, Jeremey Sewall, used to be the chef of Great Bay and he's also one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. But for some reason, we could just never make it over there until we had something to celebrate. The place has been getting some great reviews and it's so great to see another small business owner succeeding.
So when I arrived at the restaurant the place was packed. I found Leah at the bar chatting with Josh, who'd been a bartender at Great Bay, but was now the bar manager at Lineage. He was super nice to us and made me some cocktail that was pink, involved some really high quality vodka, which was the smoothest vodka I'd ever had, and was totally yummy. Even though we had made a reservation, we waited a bit to get our actual table, which was fine cause it was fun hanging out at the bar. When our table was ready, we were seated in the not greatest table in the house. towards the back and right near the door where people were entering and leaving the kitchen. we didn't really mind tho.
so if you've ever eaten at great bay, you'll find the menu here kinda similar, but certainly less pretentious and not as expensive. after we were seated we were given these super warm and tasty rolls that were baked in the kitchen's open oven. leah calls them "great bay rolls". they were so good, we each had 2 of them. and it's kinda funny cause if you read the nytimes food section last week, there was a whole article on the revival of this type of roll (which was invented at the the parker house in downtown boston!) but i digress. leah and i had already analyzed the menu while we were at the bar. we both started with the soup below. it's an english pea soup with crab beignets.
it's super green. and i'll be the first to admit that i ordered this mainly for the beignets (aka donuts aka fried dough). but i was disappointed that they weren't very crabby. i did however, enjoy the yummy soup. There were a lot of things on the menu i wanted to order, and i ended up getting two appetizers. my other one was a soft shell crab appetizer. with guacamole! (ah, my favorite) Katie avert your eyes here. you won't like the pic.
This was crispy and yummy. i was slightly disappointed that they charged $14 for this one crab, but i was so full at this point, i didn't mind too much. ok, here's a pic of leah's salmon entree. she wanted the gnocchi and asparagus that came with the fish.
And here's a pic of jayna's entree. which is a whole fish. (i don't even know what type) and menupages isn't being much help. oh katie, avert your eyes here, too. i was totally proud of jayna for ordering this. cause she'd never ordered a whole fish before. so applause to her for trying something new. (i was also proud of her when she ate the shishamo at sumi).
Ok, so i almost always order dessert. without a doubt, cause that's my thing. but we were so so full by this point that i couldn't do it. which is why i had some mixed feelings when jeremy sent out this flourless chocolate cake.
it was very good. it had coffee in it and reminded me of the flourless chocolate cake that we made at gotham. (though this one was certainly a more solid cake).
so all in all we had a great dinner. the food was very good. the service was mostly helpful and attentive and the atmosphere was warm and neighborhoody. very brookline. so if you want to try great bay like food in much nicer atmosphere and at a lower price, check out lineage and say hi to jeremy.
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