Bay Village may be Boston’s smallest neighborhood but its location next to the Boston Theatre District means that Bay Village restaurants are top choices for before-show dinners and after-show drinks, as well as fine dining on any other occasion. You’ll find one of the city’s best French restaurants, a top steakhouse located in a castle, a couple of highly regarded Italian restaurants, and a couple of more casual choices tucked away in this conveniently-located neighborhood. Here are two mouth-watering options to consider.
Pigalle (75 Charles Street South, next to Radisson Hotel) is a long-time favorite with theater-goers. This award-winning French restaurant specializes in using the freshest local ingredients to prepare classic French cuisine. Chef Marc Orfaly offers an a la carte menu with daily specials, as well as several other options: a 3-course prix-fixe menu, a casual bar and patio menu featuring $1 oysters on the half shell plus many other yummy items, and special chef’s tasting menus, with and without wine pairings. On Wednesdays, there’s even a “kitchen vs. bar battle” that pits 3 tastes from the kitchen against 3 drinks from the bar – this may be a battle, but it’s also a win-win!
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Which major east coast city is home to the 2007 Best Northeast Chef? If you said New York City and that is your final answer, you just lost the game. If you said Boston, you win the prize. And the 2007 James Beard Award Best Northeast Chef is just the beginning of what Boston has to delight your taste buds.
In the heart of fashionable Back Bay, in an 1880 townhouse, you will find sophisticated and modern New England-French cuisine, with an emphasis on artisanal and New England ingredients. At L’Espalier (30 Gloucester Street), you will also find Chef Frank McClelland, the 2007 James Beard Award Best Northeast Chef. Also in Back Bay, you’ll find a specialist in classic steak house cuisine and an award-winning wine selection at Capital Grille (359 Newbury Street). And at Vox (755 Boylston Street), known for its martinis, Chef Eric Bogardus offers dishes like Woven Flounder or Ostrich Stroganoff on an American Bistro-style menu.
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Bourbon Steak is located within The Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club in Aventura, Florida. Fairmont hotels and resorts are leaders in the global hospitality industry with a distinctive collection and a worldwide reputation for excellence. Fairmont hotels and resorts offer guests an extraordinary place that is created by combining unique architecture and structure, expressive decor and artistry, and magnificent features all in one great location. Add great service to this and the result is an extraordinary experience that would make your memory of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts a long and lasting one. I mention this because I know this to be the truth; one stay at a Fairmont property and yes the memory will be a long and lasting one. So it’s no surprise that the Mina Group has partnered with Fairmont.
What started out as a request to interview Matthew Turner, Sommelier at Bourbon Steak Miami on his award winning wine list ended up being a four and a half hour tour of sheer epicurean and oenophile pleasure; this my treasured readers is what the afterlife must be about, so come with me into the light of Bourbon Steak Miami.
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