Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

Ok, so I wasn’t bowled over with Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill (but his recipes are still wonderful). For our other pre-theater dinner, we booked reservations at Kellari Taverna, an upscale Greek restaurant on 44th Street. We had heard that their prefix dinner was a great deal, but I was more interested in taking my Greek body Nick and his wife to a nice Greek restaurant in the big apple. Ok, we did let it slip out that is was my wife’s 50th birthday and Nick and Mary’s 27th anniversary, but even without the extra attention those little facts brought us (like champagne) the experience would have still been outstanding.

Kellari is a greek restaurant that specializes in whole fish preparation, but the prefix three course meal is outstanding with huge, I mean huge portions. Not knowing this a head of time, we added a couple of appetizers prior to our order. Don’t miss the Plevrakia, grilled lamb riblets with lemon dressing. For my prefix appetizer, I had sardines. I never had them before, but wow, they were tasty. Basically grilled with herbs, salt and olive oil. Simplicity at its best. For my main course, I had Lavraki, a Mediterranean bass, again, grilled to perfection with simple salt, herbs, olive oil and lemon.

My food was equally as good as what the others ordered. Good Greek wine that went well with the food, add some top notch service and Kellari is guaranteed a repeat dinner when we get back to New York. Based on the fact that the words coming from Nick’s mouth were replaced with silence followed by happy moans and joyous expressions, I am pretty sure it met his high Greek standards.