Vetro

For the matriarch’s birthday dinner recently, we trooped on back to Vetro – the food was good last time and it’s pretty close to home, so why not?  Once again, service was superb (thanks Tommy!).  Our appetizers were served to us – the above, baked clams (yum) and fried calamari (lightly breaded, not too crisp but very tender).  BF ordered a chicken cutlet dish that was layered with eggplant, which he enjoyed but had to pull apart to eat more easily.  He even said later that he liked it a lot, just found it a little difficult to eat all [...]

Hagane

Recently, on a slow Friday, I headed over to the BF’s to hang out.  With school and work (food writing) being so intensely busy lately, I haven’t had much time to spend with him and I really missed him.  He decided he wanted Japanese food; I told him we should try the new place that had popped up on Cross Bay Boulevard.  I wanted sushi, but to my surprise, when we walked in, it was a hibachi place!  I was surprised for a number of reasons; one being I was already surprised that a small Japanese restaurant had opened so [...]