restaurant report, and brooklyn botanic garden

so i went to kitchenbar last night.  there’s actually a lot of information out there about them–i just didn’t realize their name is all one word which impacted the results of my googling.  the restaurant was better than i thought it was going to be, but like too many other brooklyn restaurants, not fabulous.  i was turned off before i even got there by the website.  interestingly, the website text seems to have changed from yesterday to today.  yesterday, the website stated that the chef was the first one to cook american comfort food with a mediterranean twist.  seriously?  that’s a ridiculous claim and they backed it up using menu items as examples, such as mini-burgers with feta (ooh, revolutionary!).  anyway, the restaurant was cute inside, they had a nice drink list and a pretty good menu.  i got the roasted chicken with lemon basil marmalade and fries.  normally i don’t order chicken in restaurants because it’s so often dry.  but i ordered, and it was dry.  but the flavor was good and the skin was crispy.  and the fries were a good combination of crispy and soggy.

chicken was a bad choice because (unbeknownst to me) it was what was served at the YWCA Women of Distinction luncheon today at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.  interestingly, the chicken was moister at the luncheon than at dinner last night.  we had to hike quite a ways through the garden to get to the conservatory where the lunch was held (and i totally wore the wrong shoes), but it was a beautiful day and the garden was beautiful and a and i will hopefully go back this weekend to check it out at a more liesurely pace (in more comfortable shoes)!

no cooking tonight again.  but maybe i’ll fit in some knitting…