Regular posts on food and dining will resume next week, but I nonetheless enjoyed a busy, satisfying week of food and drink traveling from New York, Boston and last stop, Portland.
But is the dining establishment having a few hiccups in this part of the world or is our food nation as glorious as ever? Perhaps there’s no appeal or reverence for haughty antics of some chefs and restaurateurs. In particular I refer to a pivotal review in the New York Times (see review ) that didn’t give high marks to one of the great restaurants in the country, New York’s Per Se, where dinner for two can summarily cost $1,000.
New York’s fabled dining rooms: clockwise: 11 Madison Park; Le Cirque; 21 Club and La Grenouille
And in a recent Boston Globe article, however, on the region’s explosive dining scene, the writer worried about Metropolitan Boston’s ability to absorb the glut of restaurants that cater to a dining patronage in the millions. Well, where does that put Portland, a tenth of the size of Boston, with the flush of its dining- out frenzy?
