One Last Summer Night

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Yesterday was in the 80’s, so Matt and I decided to use a restaurant.com gift certificate for an upscale Irish bar with a fun patio to soak up one last summery night. It seems everyone else had the same idea, because on our walk, there were so many people out enjoying the warm weather.

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Cuffs is located in the Back Bay hotel and has a huge selection of appetizers and reasonably priced entrees. Matt and I both started with a Sam Adams Octoberfest, a local staple here in Beantown. It wasn’t quite as good as I remember from last year, but enjoyable nonetheless. Must be all those sweet pumpkin beers I’ve been drinkin’…

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If you’ve never used restaurant.com, you should def. check it out. We had to spend $35 to get $25 off. Normally, this would be nooo problem, but the prices were so great at Cuffs, that we had to order four different things to get to $35! Spending money is sooo fun.

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The flatbread was by far the best item – it was topped with grilled peaches, apple-smoked chorizo, goat cheese and arugula. The mussels came in a close second. The sweet potato fries were great, but standard, and Matt and I were both a little disappointed in the pumpkin risotto. We’ve already had the best pumpkin risotto in the entire world (at a local restaurant that we’ll hopefully be going to in the next couple of weeks), and I don’t think any other pumpkin risotto will ever live up it.

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We didn’t want the night to end, but we were too tired for more drinks, so we settled for a little ice cream from the grocery store. It’s been a loooong time since I’ve picked out a gallon of ice cream and can I just say that I’m slightly disgusted by some of the ingredients in ice cream these days. I was hoping to find something without soy in it (I’m finding I’m sensitive to soy products) and without transfats, and we must have spent a good 15 minutes trying to find a non-vanilla flavor that met these criteria. We ended up with a Turkey Hill Butter Pecan, which was fab-lu-lous with cinnamon and letter cookies from Trader Joe’s!! I inhaled this ice cream and then fell asleep during a movie promptly at my week-night bedtime of 10:45. Sad, but what can I do? I guess Friday night movies are a bad idea…

Saturday has been wonderful thus far. I went to another cardiosculpt class today, and although I still couldn’t look in the mirror, I really enjoyed it! The sculpting is the best part because we do exercises that I would never do on my own (aka leg lifts and plie squats).

I roasted more carrots for lunch because I had such a positive experience with cooked carrots with last week’s burnt carrots. I cut them into different shapes in an attempt to figure out which shape I like the best. I think the fat discs won….

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We’ve just opened a beer from our visit to the Just Beer Brewery and are headed out to dinner again. I’ll be in touch in the AM. Bye!
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  • Lauren
    September 25, 2010 at 8:44 pm

    The meal looks great! Where is this amazing pumpkin risotto?! It sounds like a dish I would love.

    While on the topic of pumpkin, I finally found Pumpking tonight at America Craft and I think I’ve found my new favorite seasonal beer. I’m going to keep an eye out for it in beer/liquor stores. Thanks for introducing me to it!

    Your weeknight bedtime is 10:45? Jeez Laura… I’m usually in bed by 10:00. At the very latest :). I guess that’s what I get for waking up at 5:45!

    I like your experiment of roasting carrots in different shapes in order to discern which yields the best results. I am a fan of roasted carrots, and this post reminded me of how great they are.

    • Laura
      September 29, 2010 at 7:09 pm

      The risotto is at Amrhein’s in South Boston, but I would call to make sure they have it before you go. Maybe I need to be going to bed earlier? I just can’t get everything finished if I do! Glad you found the Pumking at American Craft:)

  • kath
    September 25, 2010 at 9:23 pm

    Love the menu design for that restaurant!

    Also, I want to fly to Boston for that pumpkin risotto in a pumpkin!

    • Laura
      September 25, 2010 at 10:14 pm

      Come in early Nov and we’ll do one night in the Berkshires…

  • Sara @ myfancytuna.blogspot.com
    September 26, 2010 at 8:33 am

    You are surrounded by such cool restaurants! I swear, I need to either move to your area or Kath’s! And I always fall asleep SUPER early on Friday nights – I don’t have the energy to do anything after a long week of work and school!

    • Laura
      September 29, 2010 at 7:06 pm

      I’ve been falling asleep early too, but I can always stay up for food!

  • Kat
    September 26, 2010 at 10:19 am

    Personally, I do Breyer’s all-natural for ice cream because it seems to have the least-frightening ingredient list. But, for the lowest number of ingredients, I usually pick out a pint of gelato. It’s usually a bit more expensive, but at least I know what exactly it is that’s going on in there.