Picking the Brains of My Friends

[ladysprite]

So it seems that, whatever else one can say about my job, my boss is actually quite a nice guy. I already knew this, but it's occasionally pleasant to have tangible proof of this.

You see, I was holding down the fort by myself for the past two weeks while he was out of the country. And apparently he's very happy with how smoothly things ran while he was gone, and his gratitude has taken the form of a not-insignificant bonus that I have been told is to be spent on a Very Nice Dinner for my hubby and me.

There's just a wee problem, though. We're not so much fancy restaurant people, mostly due to not generally being able to afford dinner at a fancy restaurant. Our average date-night restaurant is more along the lines of The Cheesecake Factory, with occasional forays up as classy as Legal Seafood.

So, I'm asking y'all - if money were no object (within reason - on the one hand, we don't drink alcohol, so that brings down the overall price of dinner quite a bit; on the other hand, it's not quite enough of a bonus that we can travel out of the area for a meal), where would you go for dinner?

Heck, even if you're not local, where would you suggest? Someday I might be in your area and looking for a way to burn cash, and it'd be nice to have a list of fancy expensive restaurants in random areas of the world....

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[iralith.livejournal.com]

This is not quite a money-is-no-object place (you'll generally walk out around 20 to 35 bucks poorer, so it's a little hurty for people in our income bracket but hardly "fine dining"), but for your own future nice-dinner reference: the Helmand, in Kendall Square near the Cambridgeside Galleria. On a similar financial and awesomeness level, Sabur in Teele Square. (Get the lamb, I'm told, if you eat meat.)

It's a shame we're not having this conversation four years ago, though—I used to hang out with a couple of seeeerious cooks (he was a line cook at Clio, she was the pastry chef at Rialto) who knew all the high-end places.