Bondir and Bronwyn

The golden rule: when exam/reading period starts, everything else but studying becomes so interesting and intriguing. For instance, uploading and adjusting pictures from a month ago. Typing out laborious details of that dinner. It goes from that trying to find the most efficient way to upload pictures, a search for that one picture to a full-blown reorganization and timelining the whole album, and just reminiscing the glory of those days when we had the time to eat and chat our hearts out. And you just give a blank look to those piles and piles of books and outlines and all the other horrifying materials and review sessions you are compelled to ignore. 

Bondir is a small, homey restaurant in somerville; it is hard to notice that it is a restaurant if you're mindlessly passing by. Inside is warm and welcoming, yellow light engulfing the ten or so tables covered in tablecloths with small bouquets of live flowers. They start you off with an interesting plate of snacks - dried kalamata olives, mini breadsticks dipped in garlic sauce, fruit jellies adorned with herbs. 

It was followed with a bowl of carrot soup topped with fennel, a bowl of miso seaweed soup, and housemade bread and butter.

One cold and two warm appetizers: a salad with lamb meatballs, int and roasted cabbage; and a washed rind tartine with shallots, potatoes, and crispy quinoa. There was a lot of herbs used in these dishes which made them simple but flavorful, and many interesting ingredients (having a hard time remembering the details at this point) for the tongue to explore.

Another warm appetizer was the pasta

Brownyn was at my birthday 2014. Oh my... I am just going to post these pictures for now.