We were at the memorial for Charles Coe today at the BPL, an old friend, and needed food after. Charles was an energetic cook. We’ve eaten his food and he mine. He’d have wanted us to snack after multiple poet laureates – from Somerville to the US – had read from his work. Saltie Girl is two blocks away, but getting in unannounced is tricky. We went to the library tearoom instead. It was terrific.
We split mini lamb gyros ($16 for five small ones), very tasty, very tender meat, sitting on a smearing of tzatziki (my only quibble: wish there was more), with a terrific cucumber-tomato-onion-pomegranateseed salad on the side and sprinkled with cilantro microgreens. Really good, and worth going back for again. “Dessert” was an order of their scone-of-the-day, lemon-ginger today with a whiff of cardamom. Two warm scones with clotted cream, jam and lemon curd on the side – a steal at $8. We had two substantial pots of tea (one would have been enough for the two of us), both wonderfully fragrant, my oolong emerging the winner.
I highly recommend.
