Pair

Pair has a super cute little dining room.
It's a understated rustic French country. It's very chill and comfortable, but it's so cute it feels like a special occasion whenever I go there.

Sometimes if you have to wait for a table, they bring you a little dish of cocktail mix to snack on. Well, they always bring you cocktail mix too, once you order. It's delicious with roasted garbanzos and pepitas. Oh, and they sometimes comp you some cheese puffs. That was the best day...

I always get the green salad, which is huge leaves of butter lettuce, barely dressed, and thin little goat cheese toasts. It's all about the toasts for me. We ate lots of those salads in Provence. Very Frenchy.

I usually get the thyme roasted chicken. They have fairly small portions here, but we find that if we each get a salad and one other thing (and share!) then it's plenty. We usually even have some leftovers.

This time around Michael got the special, which was roast lamb with fingerling potatoes and some fresh mint paste that was just perfect. And I got the chicken. We both enjoyed some of each.

I've tried their mac n cheese and it's lovely. Sometimes it is featured on the menu, other times it is listed at the bottom as "available" along with frites. I really want to try the mussels and frites, or the onion soup, or the beef. But I'm always sidetracked by the roast chicken.

They have a small bar, but do serve cocktails in addition to their extensive wine list. They even have a couple of beers on tap.