June RC – jm Curley

June RC kind of snuck up on all of us…but we were lucky enough to have a special guest (Dave) and to celebrate the Lawson’s last RC. The restaurant, jm Curley, was rated #32 on the Eater 38 Essential Boston Restaurants list (January 2013), and written up as “an industry approved classic”. Sounds like our kind of place.

It also has some great rules, including:

• No loud shrieking, shouting, bellowing, whining, barking, nose blowing, flatulence or obnoxious cellphone use.
• No groping, grab ass, mauling, sucking face, canoodling or heavy petting.
• It’s food and drink, not life and death. Don’t take yourself too seriously, we don’t.
• …Just don’t be a douchebag.

We started with the free stuff..sarsaparilla beer nuts and tropical gingerbread popcorn with coconut (hands down the most delicious free popcorn we’ve ever tasted).

Free snacks!

For appetizers we ordered the cast iron cornbread (with butter, honey, black pepper), the cast iron mac & cheese (with cottrell old yankee ale, cabot sharp white), the fried pickles, and the beet doritos. I was excited for the beet doritos since I am committed to figuring out how to make beet chips this summer. However comma, I didn’t fully read the description and the beet doritos were actually corn tortillas with beet powder, citric acid, salt, & “the things that make chips great”. The mac & cheese was super cheesy, delicious, and filling…perfect for sharing. 

Mac & cheese

The cornbread was very ______ (insert the “m” word that I dislike). 

Juicy cornbread

Three of the six of us (including me) ordered the burger, which is a 9 oz natural angus burger with cheddar, griddled onions, pickles, pop’s russian, and fries. They do a daily burger special, but we all decided to go with the “regular” version.

Burger-licious

The other entrees were the porterhouse pork chop, mussels and the pickled-deviled eggs (two appetizers), and the house cured salmon sliders and fries (also two appetizers).

Mussels

Salmon sliders, side o’ fries

jm Curley, getting it done à la Mayor James Michael Curley. Great pick, Kendrin!

The damage
$44 each (including tip)

The rundown
jm Curley
21 Temple Place, Boston