Note: Because of the extended July 4th weekend, Friday Dining is appearing today.
Sometimes I feel like the churlish critic who ate Portland, Maine, or is it eating me? No matter because when you come upon such a restaurant as Tempo Dulu, in the utterly glamorous new iteration of the Danforth Inn where it’s magnificently housed, it makes nearly all other dining experiences that you thought were so good tame by comparison. That’s not to say that dinner at some of our most revered restaurants like Central Provisions, Back Bay Grill or Fore Street is not duly fabulous. But it’s a combination of the exotic blending of cuisine—Indonesian—taking place in an absolutely gorgeous setting that makes the distinctive shoals of fine dining so singularly superb here.
The waiters are all handsome with Ipana-perfect smiles and beautifully attired. The principal rooms where cocktails are served shimmer like gold dust so worldly it could host cads with escorts or dowagers in diamonds.
