My last Restaurant Week dinner for Summer '10 was at Fishtail by David Burke. It's a lovely spot in an Upper East Side townhouse. The upstairs dining room feels like they've set up tables in a space that used to some lucky person's living room. It's really quite beautiful.
The Restaurant Week menu allowed for lots of choices from the regular menu (1 appetizer, 1 entree and 1 dessert) however many items had supplements! And of course, the ones I wanted had supplements... so the great deal for Restaurant Week kind of goes down the drain. I had the pretzel crusted crabcake appetizer, the trout amandine and the apple tart. (2 of the 3 items had supplements) But, forgetting about the price, the food was absolutely wonderful! The crabcake was fried, but the pretzel crusting seemed to absorb most of the oil, so I just pulled the pretzel rods off and didn't eat them (I'm sure they were great, just trying to be a little bit healthy, that's all). It was served with a mango and corn relish that was a really nice complement to the crab. The trout was nice, a rather small portion though, served with a flavorful sauce, haricots verts and almonds. The apple tart was just how I like them, a round and paper thin tart served with vanilla creme anglaise (YUM) and a dollop of dulche de leche gelato. All in all a very nice meal, but not the "bargain" one expects of Restaurant Week.
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