Summers are hot, turn on the A/C, (The) Daily Catch

This week I went to the Daily Catch in Brookline. Did you know that this restaurant legit had two websites? After checking to make sure I wasn't make an ass of myself, they have now differentiated dailycatch.com and thedailycatch.com as flash and the other non-flash. But seriously, come on, they used to have a separate web site for their three locations. It was so frustrating because I wasn't sure if the one in the North End was the exact same as the one that was re-opening in Brookline and who wants to be the unlucky bastard to end up in the place where the food tastes like a Hungry Man microwave dish.

This Wednesday was a typical hot day in June. Humidity about 70%, temperature in the 80s. It was hot and I'm a delicate flower in the heat. I was very excited to finally take my friend to this Sicilian seafood and pasta eatery but when we walked into the quaint restaurant it was balmy. At first I thought it must be because I was worked up from the walk to the restaurant and my body just needed to adjust to the temperature. Nope. It was hot in there. They had an a/c but maybe it was broken or they didn't think it was a hot enough day to turn on. Whatever the reason, it was sweltering and oppressive in there.

I really like this restaurant and the food is delicious but they needed to turn on the a/c. No one likes to be in a restaurant with sweat dripping down your face from the hot steam that is coming off your plate food in the already hot restaurant temperature. The black pasta (homemade squid ink pasta) with three different sauces of puttanesca, alfredo, or aglio olio would have been awesome choice, but the thought of a huge dish of pasta and heat did not seem appetizing. I decided to get their house special of fried calamari (and in retrospect this probably was not the best choice) and it would have been a great meal if I could take a second to stop thinking of how hot I was.

Moral of the story - don't go to this place in the summer time. Come here to enjoy their food in the winter time when you want to be in a toasty place.