Restaurant Review: The Crêperie on Newbury

I'm really thankful for Groupons, because otherwise, I would have never gone to this delicious, delicious place.  I had a $20 for $40 worth of food deal (with a $5 discount, so it was actually $15!), so I took the beau here on a date.  I mentioned before that I would hate to be a guy and the one traditionally in charge of planning the dinner dates, but I pretty much knocked this one out of the park (thanks Groupon!).  We snazzed ourselves up and took the Green Line to Copley Square and walked over to 259 Newbury Street, where this crêperie sits snugly between ritzy shops and restaurants catering to stylish (cough...rich) Bostonians.

The place doesn't take reservations for under six people, but the girl on the phone said they were so busy with the Groupon deal that they'd hold a table for us.  When we walked in at 7:00 on a Wednesday, however, we literally doubled the in-house population.  The restaurant is very clean and simply decorated, with dance music (Disco, Michael Jackson, etc) playing on a Pandora station loudly enough to be lip-synched and silently danced to, but not loud enough to drown out the other two women diners' conversation about just how much alcohol one can actually drink while pregnant anyway* and whether or not the other lady is "putting herself out there" enough.

Now to the food!  I ordered the chicken and goat cheese crêpe ($12--pictured below) and Beau ordered the braised short ribs ($14).  Covered with a roasted tomato sauce, that chicken and goat cheese concoction was perhaps one of the best things I've ever put in my mouth--at first bite.  It was so delicious, but it lacked dimension, something that could possibly be remedied with some more fresh herbs (and possibly by actually caramelizing the "caramelized" onions**).  The braised short ribs crêpe was good, and had a kind of a sweetness to it that I didn't get to explore very much because I only took a small bite because I'm weird about sharing food sometimes.

For dessert we shared the Bananas Foster ($8--pictured below).  Served with ice cream and caramel sauce, it was delicious and just rich and sweet enough.  Dessert sharing often poses Zeno's paradox:  no matter how small of an amount there is left on the plate, you'll only eat half of it.

The service was good:  everything happened quickly and our waiter was polite and attentive (though there were only two tables at the time, so who knows what it's like when they're busy).  I highly, highly recommend this place.  Even without the Groupon or any other discount, it's not unbearably expensive, especially for Newbury Street.  I'm just sad that I probably won't be able to go again before I leave.  I wonder if there are crêperies in Hawaii...

Check out the full menu for The Crêperie on Newbury here.

*Apparently, according to her OB, it's two drinks per day.  Thanks for the fetal alcohol syndrome, doc.

**Caramelization means brown, people!