Bistro 7 delivers a knock-out lunch to stay or to go
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 21:16 Once a month, Mr. Maven and I get all gussied up and go out for a nice lunch, which in this case can’t be at a casino or diner. It’s got to be someplace kinda classy where we just might have a glass of wine with our meal.
It’s the ‘date lunch’.
Today’s lunch at B7 blew us both away.
I had the Shrimp and Chicken burger off the New Year’s Resolution menu of lighter, healthier fare. It was juicy, and just hit the spot. Set on a utterly perfect toasted ciabatta bun - lightly dressed with a slightly sweet, slightly spicey twist on an aoili sauce - it satisfied.
The ciabatta was perhaps the best I’ve ever tried anywhere. It had that authentic wood oven toasted quality that gave the outside that crispy quality while the inside was warm and meltingly tender. Normally, I don’t do ‘refined grains’, and can pass up most blandly forgettable restaurant breads without a second thought. Not at B7.
Just decide you’re going for the bread, and adjust elsewhere.

But, wait! It get’s better.
My date - aka Mr. Maven - had his favorite, the BBQ pulled pork sandwich with the crunchy, lightly dressed apple slaw, again served on that most wonderous Ciabatta bread.
He took a bite and sighed, looking for all the world like a man in love.
He wasn’t looking at me.

















