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...night, the restaurant attracts a hearty dinner crowd of families, MIT types and the aforementioned business travelers. White tablecloths have been cast aside in favor of exposed metal tabletops, leaving a casual sort of place where you can ask to have a bite of your neighbor’s entr??e (or at least that’s what the guy sitting next to me found appropriate). Finding high-quality food in such a low-pretense atmosphere is certainly admirable, and this is what the Blue Room aspires to achieve. Though the restaurant brags about the Niman Ranch lineage...
...this same cosmopolitan ambition that lands the dinner menu in its utopian troubles. The eight entr??es alone strive to represent Middle Eastern, Asian, Southern and Mediterranean influences. Elsewhere, the round-the-world tour continues with Caribbean appetizers, French cheeses and Indian desserts. In the Blue Room’s brave new world, Asian vegetables with soba noodles, ginger, soy and sesame ($17) can turn up next to braised lamb shank with dates and almonds, couscous and harissa ($22). This is not mere “American eclectic” or “world fusion...
...bath of tahini. The fish was merely decent upon the first bite, with a distinctly smoky taste. When swirled into the lemon-sesame sauce, however, the combination of flavors added vigor to the dish. The accompaniments of stewed green beans and grilled cubes of red potatoes rounded out the entr??e. We also tried the vegetable terrine, which resembled a lasagna composed of layers of mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, and chickpeas. The grilled vegetables, enveloped in a slightly spicy sauce, resulted in an absolutely delicious combination...
Drinks aside, the tiny dishes of salsa, spice and unrecognizable smoosh were a welcome addition to the homemade tortilla chips—especially after everyone snarfed down the guacamole. Probably the best entr??e of the night was shared at the end of the table and consisted of a big piece of meat. Carne Asada, a typical dish all over Latin America, is transformed into a culinary wonder in Inman Square. A thin, flat piece of beef somehow becomes infused with spices and tender love, only to be consumed at a great rate along with the surrounding black beans...
...daring strategy, especially since Lean is not a man who likes to explain what he is doing, much less call attention to his command of technique or to his personality or creative philosophy. He is assuredly an auteur, but not one who uses that status to gain entr??e to the talk shows and the rest of celebrity's dubious glories. Nevertheless, Passage has been doing excellent business in the three cities where it has opened in the past two weeks?New York, Los Angeles and Toronto?and it is already being recognized as a major achievement. The New York...