Gaslight Brasserie du Coin
560 Harrison Ave
Boston 02118
617 422-0224
www.gaslight560.com
Ever have a cheese terrine? Le terrine du fromage? Oui? Non? Sound like poo-poo? Mais, no. C'est bon. Especially because I know what a terrine is.
Gaslight is a great little place on, what I call, the ouskirts of the South End. They have a parking lot, huge indoor dining room and an our door patio. If they were in the heart of the South End, there'd be no space for this. But they make it work over on Harrison Ave.
They make the food work, too. And to answer for you, yes. You do want the the Summer Vegetable & Goat Cheese Terrine. All a terrine means it that the cheese is molded around the veggies and then sliced. It's great. Spread it on bread or the lemony crostinis they provide. Ooo la la. Magnifique.
You may want to try a light pasta dish for your entree. The Ricotta and Sweet Corn Raviolis were really good. I wish the pasta had a little more cheese inside, but the flavors were all there.
And let me tell you, the know how to cook a Trout at Gaslight. Their Restaurant Week menu provided a Trout Almondine, which was nice and flaky. Crispy skin on. Zootaleur!
One thing to be weary of...the snotty little bartender at the chic bar. She'll mishear your order and charge you for a $12 glass of wine when your ordered the $6. And then when you try to nicely expose the error on the bill, you'll get a lesson on the wine she DID serve you and a promise that she'll listen harder next time. Don't forget the wish for an "excellent evening". We will return to Gaslight, but they have a pissy little letter coming their way.
That's all we can really say on this revue right now, because we're reliving the entire altercation at the bar. Gadzooks. Je suis enraged.
Furthermore, I'm try to persuade my date from this lovely outing to give us her own revue, as a guest blogging entry. Stay tuned, 'buds. This ain't the end of this one!
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