Towne

Le crispy duck…. mmmm

Not much to say about this place: your standard, rather upscale stake house type of restaurant smack in the touristy area of Boston (not exactly sure what counts as touristy Boston, but the Prudential definitely makes my list). The wine list: long. The types of stakes: many.

And, of course, I decide to go for the one thing I’d never cook for myself: the duck! Because I love duck and I always forget when I see it on a menu that there are so many ways you can go wrong with duck. Yet, so many ways you can go right…

Towne went the right way: a crispy medium-cooked leg with a long row of thin raw slices of duck on a bed of berry sauce with some dried cherries here and there. Absolutely amazing! The crispy skin on the leg reminded me of that amazing southern restaurant right by La Tour de Montparnasse in Paris where they serve the best confit de canard I’ve ever had. Only two ways to remember the name of the restaurant: go there or go back home and dig out the branded box of matches they gave me 3 years ago when I went. I’d go with option one: Paris, je t’aime.