Eating at Cafe Boulud New York at Blantyre, try saying that three times fast! I should have written about my food experience at Blantyre last week. In all honesty, I forgot. So I am trying to come up with the right words in this week’s blog. Not that my experience at Blantyre was bad, quite the opposite. It was wonderful. The place is gorgeous. The food was delicious. The workers are kind and nice to chat with. Overall it’s a great place to eat and wander around thanks to chef Daniel Boulud the Michelin star chef who owns Café Boulud in Manhattan. When dining in NYC continued to be shutdown, they opened up Café Boulud in one of the amazing guilded age mansions in Lenox, MA.
Let me tell you that Balantyre, the house this restaurant is in, is beautiful in and of itself. The rooms are beautiful. The outdoor scenery is pretty. The staff is nice. The atmosphere is pleasant. The decor is elegant. And the customers get treated like they are at a Michelin star restaurant as I said above. Let’s talk about the food now, shall we?
My appetizer was a chilled corn soup with shrimp. For the most part, I loved it. I don’t care for shrimp, but I thought I would give it a try anyway. I tried it, I didn’t care for the shrimp, but that’s not their fault. The rest of the soup was good and I would definitely eat that again.
Since we were there for Brunch my main dish, believe it or not, was pancakes. Yes, I said pancakes. They normally come with blueberries, but I don’t like blueberries so they were kind enough to make the pancakes plain. Oh, they did come with ricotta cream. Those pancakes were the biggest, thickest pancakes I ever had and they were so good!
My dessert was a chocolate lava cake that was baked to perfection. The chocolate flowed out of that cake just right and was the perfect temperature. The cream that came with that was also delicious along with the single shot of espresso I had.
I really can’t say enough good things about this place. It was one of the nicest meals I had. The staff was wonderful. And the company I had (my husband) was a delight to be with. I would highly recommend this place to people. The restaurant is open at least through October as the dining experience in NYC is currently shut down. At some point it will close down and they will go back to the city. I hope they come back to our area again next year, or make the cafe a more permanent fixture in the Berkshires. I hope you can get reservations while they are still here, you won’t be sorry.
Kathleen Smith is an indie Author, blogger and she has her own podcast Kathleen’s Korner. You can read or listen about her life in Brooklyn and Upstate NY . You can also either read or listen to her personal story of how she and her husband kept their marriage together through 3 miscarriages in Miscarriages My Story