New to the China Town neighborhood is the Davis Street Tavern, http://www.davisstreettavern.com/index.html right on the new Green Line Max rail -- 5th Ave. Can you guess what the cross street is? In an area of many new architectural and consulting firms, this new restaurant is a welcome addition to the neighborhood where good eateries aren't on every street corner. In fact with the exception of Ford's, there just isn't much in the immediate area. The architecture is typical of the neighborhood -- brick walls, high ceilings, wood floors and arched wood windows. Lots of light and a big restaurant space that is not visible in the front bar. We met friends there and went wild on the $5 each happy hour menu. We ordered the mussels steamed in coconut lemon grass sauce, a Caesar salad, the mini strip loin burger (to die for!) with its side of pickled vegetable salad, Cheese crostini trio, and the "Velvety Mac&Cheese (melt-in-your-mouth!) While the trio was really tasty, one of the cheeses was blended with beets and therefore -- pink. The brain says "stay away from pink cheesy stuff on toasted bread" while the mouth says "yum". That was a bit of a balancing act.
While there were no cocktails on the happy hour menu, there were a couple beers and wines -- all good. I gotta tell you, the cocktail menu seemed a bit too over done -- full of brands, drinks liquors, etc that I didn't understand. It was like reading a menu in Russian. Am I just showing my age? Curious what others think. The Syrah blend was nice.
For a someone who is not easily impressed by desserts in restaurants (cuz mine are always so much better), I flipped for the dark chocolate bread pudding with warm rum sauce. I've been thinking about that ever since... :)-
I'll be back, and would love to try dinner.
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