July 28th 2018: Lunch at Porto Maltese, Brookline

After visiting the Watertown Public Library this morning,

we decided to have a seafood lunch at Porto Maltese, an upscale seafood restaurant in Brookline which has replaced the Fireplace, which I visited a long time ago. Pretty nice decor, much better than the old.

For food, we got the Skate Wing Soup (Skate Wing, vegetables),

which was way too salty,

and the Sea Salt Encrusted and Flambeed Branzino, which was prepared for us at our table. The salt encased fish arrived at our table,

then was set alight.

After the flames died down, the salt layer was cracked

and removed

 before the waiter set about plating the meat

Giving us the final product.

Pretty fancy stuff, and the fish itself was not bad, but overall, way too expensive for me to consider coming back again.

From here, we decided to get some dessert from Crepe and Ice Cream 89C, yet another new rolled ice cream place in the Allston area of Boston.

Instead of rolled ice cream, we decided to get the Matcha Chocolate Truffles (served with strawberry, chocolate truffles, matcha custard cream, whipped yogurt, topped with chocolate syrup, crunched pistachio),

which looked nice in presentation, but didn't really taste special in flavor, especially without ice cream. Not coming back again for sure, especially after waiting so long for it as well.