Before we moved to Boston, we went around looking at places with our real estate agent. (BTW, we were shocked that in Boston, as the renter, you had to pay about 1 month rental fee to the real estate agent!!) Totally not used to that in L.A. or even D.C.!!!
Anyhoo, our real estate agent loved pointing out places to eat to us (when she heard we were "foodies")...one place she loved a lot and seemed to know every location of was Finale, the dessert place. And the other she mentioned whole heartedly was The Fireplace in Brookline, MA.
We love the Brookline area actually and considered living there since you can walk to a bunch of shops and restaurants easily, but finding an apartment there with TWO parking spots for our SUVs (Booey and Escapoo) was super challenging, I think I'd have had better luck looking for a Birkin at a consignment shop in the U.S.
We finally got to try out The Fireplace, and well, let's just say it was very "eh."
Pumpkin Bisque--this was actually the highlight of the meal. We actually loved loved this and had we known how everything else to follow would turn out...we would have probably just ordered 3 bowls each of this LOL
Pear and Mandarin Orange Salad--this was okay too, but how can you mess up salad, right? Or should I be giving them more credit for this hehe
Peter caught in action drinking the soup, love his reaction here, as if he was doing something bad haha...
PZ--Zanerobe Purple Tee (btw you may have already noticed a trend in Peter's wardrobe, once we like a brand/style/fit of an item, we kind of go over board and buy ever color in that item...ex: Lacoste shirts, Peter loved them so we ended up getting 1 in every color haha)
This is actually embarrassing but I thought it accurately captures how I felt about this Pumpkin Bisque haha!
Me--Cartier Love Bracelets in YG and WG, Mizuki Onyx Bead with diamond bracelet, Cartier Charity Bracelets in Cobalt Blue and Black Silk Cords, Free City Turquoise Tee, Tiffany Platinum Diamond Star earrings and Roberto Coin 18K WG diamond Heart earrings.
Bacon Cheeseburger--very average...
Salmon Pizza--I really had high hopes for this and got excited since I had an amazing salmon pizza when I was in Berlin years ago...and well, lets just say this was not so good, the crust tasted like cardboard pita bread...
So, lesson learned?--DO NOT just take anyone's advice on food recs...I think I trust mostly my fellow Chowhounders and some Yelp reviews. After this, we kind of just avoided any place our realtor had said she LOVED haha...including Finale...
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