Oak + Rowan Boston

Edit: I've left my original review below, but we visited a second time on Valentine's Day and it did not disappoint. The photos are from this second experience which was even better than the first! Thank you to Tara especially for staging a wonderful dinner for us! Save room for dessert! Our dinner was so great, I forgot to take photos! We made a reservation on a whim and, quite frankly, I wasn't prepared for such an amazing experience. This place packs a punch way above its price point for Boston - particularly for Seaport which has some notoriously pricey/shiny hype sometimes. It is incredibly well reviewed and has won multiple awards, but for some reason was not packed on a standard Saturday evening. The food was completely insane. We had a Sea Bass Crudo, the Milk Bread, and a brie cheese plate to start. All very creative. The milk bread is accompanied by a light matcha butter with a zesty spice dusting on top. Not a scrap was left. Had no idea those flavors would be so great with a perfectly baked challah style bread! This first course was accompanied by a good cocktail with ample timing to order a wine glass for our main entree. For that, we tried the trout and venison. Wow. Try them for yourself. We were already saying "wow we should take our friends/fam here" before dessert. But... Dessert sealed the deal. We had a lemon curd tart with rosemary, meringue dots, marshmallow shards, pomegranate seeds, and a homemade lemon-rosemary sorbet. We also tried another dessert that I can only describe as a crystal citrus ice sugar cloud... Yeah. It was amazing. Our waitress and bartender were both great! All around excellent experience and we will be back. I'll take pictures next time... If I remember.