A La Carte: The Strand House, HT Grill, Chez Melange, The Counter
The Strand House. Photo by Alexandra Mandekic Highs and Lows… Last week I had the best and worst meals of the year so far, a pair of experiences that show everything that can go right and wrong with a restaurant. I won’t divulge the name of the place that got virtually everything wrong; the place had very recently changed concept and management, and may get better. They can hardly do otherwise, since they made mistakes we had never seen before; we actually laughed when we saw our server holding our water glasses by the rim as she delivered them, leaving greasy fingerprints right where we would put our mouths. (We decided we weren’t thirsty.) As for the food, the menu might have been created by a focus group – it was an assemblage that was designed to have something for anybody but had no hint of character or creativity. In attempting to please everybody, they created a soulless experience that would be forgettable if it wern’t so badly executed. Only a few days later, my wife and I attended one of the first meals at the Strand House and saw how well a new establishment can run. To be sure, this one has a budget many times that of the aforementioned disaster, but Strand House has…
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