For lunch today, I decided to head to Upton to eat at the
Rose Garden Restaurant, which is more of a dive bar than a restaurant.
I got the only interesting thing on the menu, the Jalapeno Cheese Burger (fresh jalapeño melted in with the cheddar cheese and avocado),
which was pretty bland, although the fries were decent. Definitely not coming back again. Rose garden it is not.
Later in the evening, we took a cooking class at
Sur La Table in Natick, learning how to cook with a salt block. Really a novelty more than a better substitute for granular salt. In order to use it effectively, it has to be either heated in an oven or stored in a freezer before use.
For the hot block, we cooked shrimp on it, which were pretty tasty in the end.
For the cold block, we made caramel peanut brittle,
which was pretty tasty and crispy at the end of the process.
We were still hungry after the class though, so we decided to go the
Met Bar and Grill in the mall, which I visited once
a long time ago.
This time, we got the Tokyo (avocado, muenster, pickled onion, sprouts, sticky soy, wasabi mayo) burger,
which was not bad with the mayo, except for the pickled onions, which were not to my liking.
Overall, not a good day for burgers.
