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What would you order for your last meal on earth?
I'd order a medium rare, bacon cheeseburger with blue cheese and onion rings
By Walter Brooks
My favorite bacon cheeseburger today is at The Beehive on Tremont Street in Boston and the Land Ho! in Orleans or Harwichport.
My wife and I were dining a decade ago at the Julien at the Hotel Meridien (now the Langham) in the Financial District in Boston, when she was served a foie gras so sumptuous that she said it's what she would order if she were on Death Row and had one meal left on earth.
Or course, if anyone eats foie gras often enough that last meal will come much sooner, but it made me think about what I would order, and then even a harder choice:
What if you had to eat the same dish every meal?
Now this is a tougher choice, and while a bacon cheesburger with blue cheese won out, Yankee Pot Roast and Sauteed Cod were in the running for a while.
So my question for YOU, dear reader, is to add a comment below with YOUR choice if you had to eat the same meal at dinner for the rest of your life.
The Julien is gone, and so are many of my old Boston favorites like this list of other great Boston restaurants which are no longer with us:
Jasper's - Waterfront
Allegro on Boylston
Aujourd'hui- Four Seasons Hotel
Back Bay Bistro - Boylston St, Boston
Bay Tower Room - Downtown
Cafe Florian - Back Bay
Capriccio Plu - South End
St. Cloud - South End
L'Espalier - on Boylston St
Season's - Season's Hotel
Devon on the Common
Cafe Budapest - Brookline - Back Bay
Chef Chandler's - South End.
West Street Grille - West St
The English Tea Room - 29 Newbury St
The Commonwealth Grille - Back bay
Dartmouth Street - Back Bay
Delmonico's - Lenox Hotel, Back Bay
Du Barry - Back Bay
European - North End
Dini's Seafood - Tremont St.
Harvard Book Store Cafe - Newbury Street
Hermitage, old I.C.A. on Boyelston.
Jimmy's Harborside - Waterfront
Julien at the Hotel Meridien
Le Marquis De Lafayette - Hotel Lafayette
Maison Robert - Old City Hall
Maison Jacques - West End
Michael's - Waterfront
Mister Leung's - Back Bay
Newbury Steak House - Back Bay
Panache - Cambridge, Chef Margaret Fari
Peacock Restaurant - Craigie Cir, Cambridge
Premier Restaurant - South End
Rarities - Charles Hotel, Cambridge
Rebecca's - Charles St, Beacon Hill
Romagnoli's table - Faneuil Hall
St Botolph - St Botolph St
The Winery - Long Wharf
Zachary's - Colonnade Hotel
Joseph's Aquarium - Waterfornt
Dakoto's - Downtown
Betty's Rolls Royce - Faneuil Hall
Bandy Pete's - Downtown
Icarus - Tremont St, South End
Biba - Harvard Cafe, Cambridge
Blacksmith House- Harvard Sq, Cambridge
Ken's Deli - Boyslton Street
Walmouth's - Downtown
Oasis Cafe - North End
On the Park - South End
Jeffery's - South End
Ottavio's - North End
Falstaff Room - Sheraton Back Bay
Rocco's - South Charles St., Chef Danny Weisel
About
Blogeto, ergo sum.
I blog, therefore I am.
Walter Brooks is the cctoday editor and a lifelong journalist who has worked in media on Cape Cod since '65.
He has been married for over a half century to Patricia Brooks who is the Advertising Director and Vice President of Best Read Guide. They raised two sons in East Harwich. Todd is a retired USAF vet and Jay runs BRG Distribution. Julie Brooks is their daughter-in-law and is the president & founder of eCape.com
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