Grassfields for Ghosts

Waltham restaurants are fair, chains and family friendly.

There was one that was especially terrible.   On Moody Street. The waitress wasn't getting anything right, it took 2 hours to get out, and worst, the food was atrocious.  The place was empty on a Thursday night, and still was a long and hard wait for anything to happen.

Grassfields is a good place for me to go, mostly because it has a lot of good & locals ghosts for me.  My father, my work colleagues, everyone I've been there with.  And lots of local color.

The food is good, the bread isn't bad and there is alcohol (usually nice & strong)

Dishes to recommend: scallops & steak tips, esp for lunch.  Grassfields burger, and any drink with champagne!

Wait staff is friendly and the place is bustling enough to feel like you have company, even when you are by yourself.

Bklyn Label "The Flirt"

A great drink & beet salad!

80 Thoreau, Concord, MA

The BEST soup I have ever had!!

Rhubarb & pear & crabmeat!! 

Brave Lucy as a drink & great bread. This was to celebrate the fact I had swum across Walden Pond 2 days earlier, in the coldest water I've ever been in, the latest I've ever done!! October 19!!

The Monkfish special!!

Finishing up with CORN ice cream (complete with Cracker Jack like garnish)

When the host tells you it's phenomenal, you listen!! 

Thanks Vincent & Ashish!! ;)

Esme Dinner!!

$100 for 3 courses (2 drinks and tip too!!) and well worth it!!

Calamari (sweet!!) and my new favorite book about the Morris Jumel Mansion.

The waiter talked to me about it & we discussed writing.

The drink was excellent as well! 

The Salmon. The best I've had in a VERY long time. Crispy on the outside & not overcooked!!

Cafe creame for dessert!! 

Even their accidents are charming!! 

Lobster Claw

Fish tacos (not as good as Bklyn Label!)

And grilled zucchini!!

Enid's Brunch:Catfish

Catfish & grits & drunken beans/rice. 

Wonderful & took half home!!

Fish Tacos at Lodge and City Reliquary

I read about a storytelling event at City Reliquary.

I read about it at 5, the event was at 7.

I bought a ticket at 6:30 ($5), and looked at the collection of Statues of Liberties. They didn't have mine.

And I walked around the block. Knitting Factory on Metropolitan.

And Lodge on Grand.  Facing the sunset.

I ordered the Delta Blue. Blueberry infused vodka and lemonade.  It tasted like being 8 yrs old.

I love Sarah Vowell, mostly by way of This American Life. But now, whenever I think of Sondheim's Assasins or any other dead president lost to history, I'll think of her.  The entire book is like hearing the voice of a snarky 8 yr old giving you running commentary in your 3rd grade history class. While drinking an alcoholic beverage right on a street in Brooklyn before attending an event inside a storefront that contains souveneir crap from NYC.

I think this is the original wedding cake belonging to Miss Havisham's (Aka Eliza Jumel, of the mansion on 163rd)

Fish tacos came and went. Amazing. Mango and cilantro and onion salsa, why is this so hard to recreate in the suburbs of Boston?

The space for the event.

Best jokes:

Discovering a math teacher eating 2 hits dogs at the same time.

Pranking people on 3 way calls by making them think they called each other (must try this!!)

Note guy with dog, above.

And awesomely decorated bathroom, below.