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Boutros Review – Mediterranean Food – Brooklyn, NY
Dinner last night at Boutros, which we passed on our way to another restaurant but couldn't resist once we read the menu! The first photo is of their version of a tiramisu, but I started with the Thistle and Smoke cocktail with mezcal, Cynar, lemon, and honey. Then we had the house bread with za'atar herbs. All of the small plates on the menu looked so good to us that we shared a bunch instead of ordering an entree: roasted beet hummus, labneh crudité with vegetables and za’atar, burrata with figs and hazelnut/vinegar spread, fried rice with beef sausage, Brussels sprouts, egg, and enoki mushrooms, and grilled octopus with potato…
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Fig & Olive – Mediterranean – Midtown East
Dr. Boyfriend and I were trying to decide where to book a dinner reservation last week and saw that Fig & Olive has nearly 700 reviews on OpenTable, which is more than everything else we saw by a long shot. After going there on Friday night, I understand why. The place is just plain meant to appeal to a lot of people. The menu is interesting but not adventurous, the prices are high enough to keep out the riffraff but low enough that you wouldn’t feel bad about taking a date here even knowing she wasn’t going to put out, the lighting is low, the furniture is plush, the service…