This month we dusted off our passports and headed to Roslindale for a little “R ‘N’ R”: Redd’s in Rozzie. It opened in 2011 and I’d call it comfort-y food. They call themselves “Rozzie’s original spot for local, tasty, smooth, and refreshing.”
We missed Paetra, but we also officially initiated a new person into the coveted twelfth spot…welcome to Mitch, officially! We’re looking forward to his first RC pick in January.
We started with deviled eggs, crispy avocado, hush puppies with sweet onion and bacon ragout, and the pickle plate. I asked everyone what their favorite was and it seemed to be a tie between the pickle plate and the deviled eggs. The pickles are house-made and super yummy. In the words of Kendrin, “if I could make pickles like that I might get stomach cancer.” Mitch’s favorite “appetizer” was the butter, which was also delish. I think we went through about four baskets of bread. There were also a couple of votes for the crispy avocados, which just barely edged out the others as my favorite.
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| Who knew you could fry an avocado? |
For entrees, I ordered the Half-roasted Chicken Americana, which came with biscuit stuffing and ginger carrots and gravy. I also shared a side of the of buttermilk mashed potatoes with a friend, because I really have a hard time resisting mashed potatoes. A basic dish, but I think because I am bad at cooking chicken, I can really appreciate when someone does it well. Plus it was great the next day for lunch.
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| Roast chicken |
A couple of other dishes that ended up in the “clean plate club” were the Scallops Trainwreck 1887 and the Marinated Hanger Steak.
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| Scallops with a wreckage of vegetables |
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| Hanger steak with buttermilk mashed potatoes |
Other entrees that were ordered:
- Pollock (which I think is replacing the Cornbread Crusted Hake on the menu)
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Redd’s Southern All-Star Paella which was topped with a big ol’ piece of fried chicken
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Wood Roasted Pork Loin
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Whole flounder (this was a special)
We also got to celebrate Mark and Jimmy’s wedding anniversary, with some cupcakes from Georgetown Cupcake. When you celebrate your birthday, the staff puts on nacho libre masks and sings to you. Unfortunately we couldn’t get them to do that for Mark and Jimmy, but we still sang to them. I had a carrot cake cupcake, and apparently didn’t get the memo that we were sharing our cupcakes until after I had already finished mine…whoops!
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| Happy anniversary! |
The damage:
$42 per person (and the bill came with mini peanut butter lime cookies!)
The rundown:
Redd’s in Rozzie
4257 Washington Street, Roslindale
Georgetown Cupcake
83 Newbury Street, Boston
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