-
i've been there several times already...it's totally awesome. the food is delicious, actually out of this world. the staff is fun and quick to clean up after each course! bar is fun! the drinks are big and tasty. the bartender always has a "choice" drink; try the watermelon margherita if you have a chance! place fits right into the neighborhood, not yuppie at all, come as you are for whatever you want. there's music too. people seemed quick to criticize but i think you should give it a fair shot. i did and i'm thrilled. let me know what you think!!!
-
We ended up here last night--for anyone who frequented Triple D's, you'll be in for a shock. It's really hard to believe that it's the same space, or that you're even in JP. But I think this place will do well--it was packed last night and they only officially opened on Friday. The beer and wine selection was good (Hoegaarden on tap which is always nice) and it does seem like a place to get a good cocktail--which in my opinon is a niche that has needed to be filled in JP for a while. There have always been more than enough good pubs but sometimes you just want something other than beer.
Prices on the menu were decent and covered a wide range (I'd compare them to somewhere like Sophia's Grotto)--there are an assortment of flatbread pizzas starting at $7.00 and then main entrees in the teens and low twenties. We got an arugula salad with warm roasted lamb and the margarita flatbread pizza, both of which were really good. Service was exceptional for the second night, I think.
I can definitely see this place getting packed and a little clubby on weekend nights, so I'll probably end up there during the week more often. But I'm glad to have it in the neighborhood--I agree that it was too bad to see Triple D's close, but (thankfully?) JP is still bestowed with an abundance of old man bars (head to Hyde Park Ave!).
-
MC Slim JB
Jul 16, 2006 01:04 AM
This is Elements Restaurant/Alchemist Lounge that replaced Triple D’s in Jamaica Plain? That was one looong rehab. To the chagrin of the locals who've been drinking in that location for 15 years, I'm guessing this place is likely to be about pink concoctions strained into delicate glassware, small nibbles of weird ingredients at $10 a plate, and alien downtempo music wafting from a DJ booth in the corner.
Not that there's anything wrong with that per se. It reminds me of my first visit to the B-Side, the former Windsor Tap, aka "the best place in Cambridge to pick up an eightball and a stab wound". I struck up a conversation with one of the old Windsor regulars, who was predictably lamenting its demise. We had a nice chat going until the bartender decanted my Negroni in front of me, which the old-timer took one look at, then stopped talking to me. Ya can't go home again. Too bad about the fading of the good Old Man Bars, though, among which I counted Triple D's.
-
-
tatamagouche
Jul 15, 2006 09:19 PM
Can you elaborate on "cool and happening"? Small plates lounge, contemporary, I'm guessing?
›1 Reply -
-
