It’s time to highlight the restaurants worth going to for birthdays and anniversaries, for graduations and memorials, and for holiday get-togethers.
is a sanctuary from the world, a haven of respite, a nearly Zen experience. I wonder if there are parties who come for lunch – and wind up staying for dinner. Once you’re seated by the lake, the 24/7 worries of CNN seem to fade like the morning mists. If there were a string quartet playing in one corner, it would fit just right.
The setting is classic, and decidedly old school, the trees overhead both cooling the space, and perfuming it with green sweetness. At The Oaks, life is good. And so is the food – even if the roots of the cooking have moved from one side of the world to the other. And sometimes, not all that much. Come for dinner, and the cooking flips from one continent to another. The appetizers run to steamed clams, mozzarella doused in marinara, fried calamari and shrimp scampi. The burrata salad – a wonderful dish, and an easy addiction – reappears, before the menu moves to the chicken Milanese and chicken marsala, the two veal scaloppinis, the lobster ravioli and homemade lasagna.
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