For Restaurant Week Boston 2008 this year I went to Selle de la Terre on State Street. I'm reviewing it because I'm extremely bored at work and can't think of anything else to do. Pathetic? Maybe...
Appe-teaser: Before I get to what I had for a first course, allow me to begin bitching. The restaurant week menu isn't on the internet. The only mention of it on the Selle de la Terre website says that menus change daily and suggests the perspective patron "call for [their] latest creations." Now, I have a blog. I know what it takes to post a couple of lines of text onto the interwebs. It's really not hard (that's what she said). Get your shit together. Anyways, I had some sort of cream of asparagus soup. It was actually quite tasty, though a little salty. There were two small stalks of asparagus laid dantily across the top of the soup that seemed to have been frozen, which provided an interesting contrast with the warm soup. Still, I couldn't help but feel the soup wasn't particularly complicated, a feeling that would become a theme of the evening's meal. Overall though, I would rate the soup as the best part of the meal.
Main Course: For my entree, I enjoyed the steak. Again, you won't be able to find this one on the menu online. It definitely wasn't the ribeye that they've got on the regular dinner menu. It came with 2 peices of charred asparagus and a mini-mushroom sucotash. My steak was perfectly medium rare and I really enjoyed the crunch left in the asparagus. The mushrooms were very well seasoned and though the idea of mushrooms and steak fit comfortably into my paradigm of a manly dinner, it wasn't especially imaginative. I was also a little annoyed at the prospect of more asparagus after my soup. Though quite delicious, this course was basically a steak, and though a good one, nothing too imaginitive.
Dessert: Yup, good, but pretty boring again. I had the chocolate silk cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, 4 blueberries, 2 blackberries and 1 streak of a fruit sauce. It was really tasty, had an incredibly smooth texture and was a great finish to a very solid meal, but I'd be lying if I said I was impressed with the culinary technique involved in preparation.
Beverage: In lieu of wine, I decided to try a cocktail from the menu. This is the only part of my meal that was on the normal menu, though try as I may, I can't seem to find the cocktail menu online either. Selle de la Terre is really starting to annoy. Anyways, I had the Greyhound. I believe it was pink grapefruit juice, some sort of top shelf vodka and Lavender flavored syrup. It was particularly tasty, but for 11 dollars I could buy a handle of Poland Springs Vodka and an entire grapefruit orchard.
Swap Verdict: 20 bucks won't buy you shit off this menu, so this review is pretty pointless. But then again, so is most of the information on this blog.
Swap Countdown: 74 days.
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