My Parisian pals and I took a trip to the South End (now known as Restaurant Row) for brunch at a French bistro to celebrate a friend coming to town. Walkable from Park or Copley T stations, it was my first time venturing in the South End of Boston. It has been drastically vamped up with brownstone renovations and a restaurant strip. It is truly a beautiful area, the SOHO of Boston, with streets lined with red-brick brownstones.
We brunched at Aquitaine on exquisite omelets, scones, potatoes, and bottomless cups of grapefruit juice and coffee. The omelets were stuffed with fresh veggies and French cheeses and we walked out stuffed, as well. The big brunch concept is surely not French, but the prix-fixe surely is ($9.95).
Aquitaine French Bistro
569 Tremont Street, South End
http://www.aquitaineboston.com/index.php
We then T'ed in over to Harvard Square and stopped in a bunch of boutiques and silly shops. My favorite being:
Cardullo's
Gourmet International Food Shop
6 Brattle St.
Cambridge, MA
www.cardullos.com
This shop carried all of the products that we fell in love with in Europe. Turkish tea, nehaus chocolats (with speccaloos), Cadbury chocolate, London biscuits, Italian sauces...It's amazing that in Europe we searched for peanut butter, cake mix, and wheat thins , and now we're drooling over imported cheeses, chocolates, and teas!
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