Leopold

Definitely have to raise my star rating here. I finally went back to Leopold on Wednesday night for a dinner with some Boston University alumni. One of the managers at Leopold went to BU. Sadly, she couldn't be there but she did tell the staff to give us a really nice complimentary appetizer tray! It had some pate, some cheese, almonds, and sausage. Everything was a lovely taste of what was to come.

I enjoyed a few nice beers (Winterkoninck to start and Ommegang's Rare Vos during dinner). They went really nicely with my brave choice (if I do say so myself) of sweetbreads. Although it was my first time trying sweetbreads, I have to say that I loved the preparation in the salad. All of the ingredients were so flavorful and fresh in the salad. I'd definitely try sweetbreads again after this great introduction!

I tried a bit of my friends' meals too: beef brisket special, duck confit hash, muscles in white wine sauce. Delicious...all of it.

And the piece de resistance...dessert. The Black Dog sorbets were so flavorful (chocolate, blood orange, cherry root beer). and the waffle was fluffy and light. The whiskey maple sauce and fig compote really added to it.

Very impressed. Love this joint!

I took my boyfriend to Leopold's for a congratulatory dinner about a month ago and I have to say the food, atmosphere and service was PERFECT! We went on a Monday night around 8:30 and it was really nice and quiet.

Our server, Sandra, was spot on with our dinner service.  She explained about how many dishes each person usually orders and how the menu works. We decided to order the poutine,skirt steak and apple-sage pierogi. Sandra suggested that we order the brussels sprouts, as they would go well with what we ordered, so  we did. I haven't ate brussels sprouts since I was a kid and I was a little hesitant at first but once I bit into them they were the highlight of my meal! The poutine was a little heavy but so delicious. We had her leave them on the table and nibbled on them throughout our dinner service. We then got our skirt steak, pierogies and brussels sprouts. My boyfriend and I agreed that the steak was one of the tastiest steaks we had had in a while. It was cooked to perfection, thinly sliced, buttery and tender, yum! The pierogies were also to die for.

Throughout our dinner service we were checked on just enough times to see how we were doing and how the food was. Our drinks were refilled and we never had to hunt someone down to get our check. It's rare to get a great, total package outing, so we really appreciate the awesome service from Sandra and the other employees.

We live right around the corner and we will most definitely be coming back to enjoy the food, atmosphere and great service. Thank you!

We got oysters, cheese platter (each cheese but the goat chese they had on the menu), apple pierogis, mussels & frites. Everything was delicious. I had about three beers there. They were out of two of the belgian's on draft which was sort of a bummer. Also I did not care too much for the ambiance. A little pretntious for tavern food but I guess there are a lot of other more exquisite options on the menu that I did not try. Would definitely go back when the hankering for mussels hits and don't have the energy to jet up to Hop Leaf.