PR: Half price tapas at North End Cafe

[Robin Garr]

North End Café is kicking off a Summer of fun with 1/2 Price Tapas Tuesdays; Tapas will be accompanied by a featured value wine.

(Tapas are available at 1/2 price Wednesday and Thursday from 4-7 pm as well).

Are all of these tapas included in the deal?

Tapas:

Sesame Seared Tuna $11
With Guava puree, wasabi cream and taro chips.

Shrimp and garlic $9
Sauteed with extra virgin olive oil with crostinis.

Spicy Fried Calamari $9
with marinara.

Baby Back Ribs $8
With blueberry BBQ sauce.

Scallops $10
Pomegranate gastrique, Kentucky spoon fish caviar, chervil, and creme fraiche.

Empanadas $8
Butternut Squash & mushrooms
-or-
Roasted pork with spicy chipotle salsa.

Crabcake $11
4oz of rock crab meat, served with cucumber fresca, and taro chips.

Hummus $7
Garnished with toasted pita, olives & fresh vegetables.

Fried Oysters $8
with Dijon Remoulade.

Mussels $9
With blood orange, shallot, garlic and cilantro.

Almond Crusted Brie $8
With raspberry infused honey.

Cheese Board
Local selections & seasonal fruits,
three selections $9
five selections $15

Spicy Portabella Quesadilla $8
with cheddar cheese and pico de gallo. and sour cream.

Herbed Goat Cheese $8
with smoked tomato sauce.

[Robin Garr]

Are all of these tapas included in the deal?

Justin, I quoted the complete news release. To me, "tapas" means "tapas." You might want to check with North End before going, though, if it's important to you. And if the sale is more limited than the news release suggests, of course we would want to know about that ...

After seeing this my boyfriend and I decided we are going to celebrate our 4 year anniversary a day early and go to Northend tonight!!! I made a reservation for us at 6. I'll let you all know how the 1/2 price tapas go!!!

This sounds great! Can't wait to check it out!

I cannot speak for Christopher and his current promotion at North End, but during my brief stint as Chef de Cuisine there, we did Tapas Tuesday, which were a selection of $5 tapas on, go figure, Tuesdays. These were occasionally items from the menu, but more commonly a selection of 8-10 items that were created by the kitchen staff that afternoon. It was a lot of fun, kind of our own Top Chef quickfire challenge every week.

Let us know how it is - haven't been back to North End in better than a year, but this may draw me there!

We had to end up canceling our reservation last night. On the way there my boyfriend got called back into work for an "emergency" (not really an emergency at all, some of the people he works with are just ridiculously incompetent and take advantage of the fact that we live just 5 minutes from his office!) He got home 1o minutes to late for us to make it before 7pm for the half price tapas. I think we'll try again on Tuesday!

Is this all night? Thanks.

[Robin Garr]

Is this all night? Thanks.

I assume so, but again, what I posted is the entire content of the EMail North End sent to me. If there's any question and you want to avoid disappointment, it never hurts to call. And post what you learn.

I spoke to a John at North End, he says it is the Tapas off the regular menu.

They are 1/2 off all day on Tuesdays

The North End Cafe is also running half price apps on Wed. and Thurs from 4-7pm.

We were there at 6:30 last night and nobody mentioned half priced tapas! Anyway, the menu listed above is only half correct. There were no mussels (boo hoo) and there were a couple of different shrimp tapas. In fact, there were quite a few more than listed above and it was terribly hard to make a decision! Service was outstanding and I love the windows looking out the sides...really opens it up.

We had 1) Mushroom Quesadillas- these were delicious; must have been the cheddar that made them SO tasty, but i could have 2 orders of these and nothing else.

2) Scallops- 2 plump perfectly prepared scallops with a dribble of cream and avocado slices and a corn relish. Very tasty.
3) Seared tuna- sesame coated with a wasabi sauce, absolutely delicious. I'm gald that it was freshly prepared and served, not refrigerated.
4) Vegetable spring rolls- IMO they could have used perhaps a little shredded carrot and cilantro for taste, but they were crunchy and healthy with a good peanut dip and a good alternative to a salad. i liked them.
5) Calamari- the only disappointment. These were rings only in a bland coating with no flavor or spice and a small container of marinara. They tasted like the frozen variety from the grocery. We only ate a few. I used the lemon from my water to give them some pep.

Anyway, we'll definitely come back. It's a great concept. We eat here often for lunch and breakfast and have always loved it.