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« Just the basics | Main | The old-fashioned way » Monday, February 5, 2007Everybody's out on a Saturday night
Dining early on Saturday night in Boston can be a lonely experience. The burbs, though, are a different matter, as I found out first-hand when trying to stop off for an early bite at Incontro in Franklin. The hostess had told me when I called that the restaurant was booked solid last Saturday, but surely we thought if we got there before 6 p.m. we could eat at the bar. Wrong. At 6, there were lines off the highway into the parking lot -- it looked like Fenway when the Yankees are in town. People were jostling their way into the handsome stone building, a former mill, where chef Bill Bradley holds court. The wait, even at the bar, was 2 1/2 hours. Obviously, there's pent-up demand for this restaurant in a sleepy area -- at least foodwise. And, obviously, suburban diners go early; there were reservations available after 9 or so. So we headed back into Boston, where the streets seemed deserted and the Good Life downtown (Michael Scelfo is cooking there now) was empty. As we were finishing our meal -- excellent spaghetti carbonara and great fried oysters -- the young crowd was just coming in. It's all in the timing. Posted by Alison Arnett at 03:01 PM
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