But are there ALIENS?
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Well, considering what comes out to play in October in Salem…there very well MIGHT BE. 
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What a fantastic experience!
I remember the peanut soup served with grilled shrimp at Salamander. The recipe is in Stan Frankenthaler’s cookbook.
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After Salamander, didn’t Frankenthaler move on to consult with Dunkin Donuts? I remember being puzzled by that.
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I was just looking up erbaluce when I saw you got it! I remembered that at one point the chef Charles Draghi was consulting at Alcove. I am so sad I never got to erbaluce. It sounded divine, and ahead of its time. I hope he opens another place of his own! Thanks for the winning answer!
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It was memorable enough that I think about it 20 years later 
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Another restaurant we miss.
Also Sage…but good news is that Tony Susi is back, with Little Sage on Hanover Street. I remember an excellent rabbit dish at Sage.
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More hits than misses at Erbaluce, but we did have a few misses. We always enjoyed the variety of fish entrees on their menu.
I never understood the concord grape dish. Such a strong flavor, it overpowered the protein.
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Indeed – and if I’m not mistaken, I learned about that place from you, in a post last summer on one of those “I’m coming to Boston, where should I eat” threads. I went there myself the following week, and never followed up with a post. So: Excellent suggestion, thank you!
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He was one of the instructors for BU’s Culinary Program, which is where I met him. He went on to run the Whole Foods kitchen for a while, then disappeared.
He’s doing consulting and arts
I thought Stan Frankenthaler went on to be the executive chef for product development at Dunkin Donuts, not WF
I also thought it was Dunkin Donuts. I was really surprised when he went to DD. WF would have made a lot more sense, to me! A bit more aligned with The Blue Room than with DD.
After DD he went to Craftworks. I do really like his cookbook, The Occidental Tourist.
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He was at Whole Foods, then went to Dunkin’.
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My mom took me to Michaela’s a few times when I was an impressionable teen then MIT student. I remember loving it but wish I could remember more specifics. If Mom complains about my expensive tastes now, I remind her I acquired them through her 
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We still remember our dinner at Hungry Mother in 2008:
The third person in our party was our 8 month old baby, who we needed to bring in a stroller. Thankfully, he slept the entire meal and we were able to enjoy dinner. No photos, as it would be years before we got smartphones and we weren’t in the habit of photographing meals with our digital camera. So I can’t recall exactly what we ate, but that it was a lovely meal and the restaurant were very accommodating of our stroller with sleeping baby parked by the table.
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T’was such a gem of an establishment. The decor, the service, the food. Everything was just so damn perfect. I used to sit at the bar quite often and it was always a wonderful experience and it’s definitely one of the places I miss the most alongside Emma’s Pizza which was a few hundred yards away and which was an underrated gem of a place too
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I still have an email from Rachel Miller Munzer reassuring me it was fine to bring a baby!
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I agree, everything was lovely about it, including the people.
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