Summer Summer Summertime

Last day of school and Nhi needs a ride home to transport her big bags of school supplies. It's a gorgeous evening, so we go to dinner. At dbar. Did you know they had an outdoor area? Because I did not. But I do now.

It's a really cute little area, and surprisingly not loud, considering you're right at an awful intersection on Dorchester Ave.

 Stonefruit smash - delicious and boozy.

Predictable Nhi gets the salmon - pretty big portion (she had leftovers, and she usually does not have leftovers), and she said it was really good.

Mac and cheese with chicken - another huge portion (I had two more meals worth of leftovers), but delicious.










dbar is consistently great for comfort food. And yummy drinks.

Finally it's the weekend, and Friday evening Tai and I meet with Alex for dinner at Rod Dee in Fenway.

Thai iced tea.

Pineapple basil smoothie - different, but really good. A refreshing summer drink.

My side of crispy chicken that decided to come out before anything else. For $3 this is a pretty generous amount.

Tai's pad see ew with beef - we asked for this to be a little spicy, which made this great.

Alex's drunken noodles with beef.

My crab fried rice - so this decided to come out when Tai was more than halfway done with his dish. And he's a slow eater. I honestly thought they had forgotten about me. It wasn't bad, but it was interesting. And I'm not sure I'd get it again. I'd go back to the Indonesian fried rice or the Tom Yum fried rice before this.




I have never seen such confusion at Rod Dee. First, they bring over two plates of pad see ew, one spicy and one not. Nope. Then they bring the drunken noodles. Shortly followed by another one. Nope again. And then my dish comes another 20 minutes later. They're usually so on top of things. Still one of the better Thai options around though.

BONUS:

Peanut butter cup ice cream from the Cookie Monstah food truck. They actually get their ice cream from Richardson's, I believe. And it's delicious.

The Boloco burrito that I didn't even eat, because I was too full from ice cream.