Date Night!

For my birthday, we had a fancy date. First, we headed to Proctors to see Hadestown. This was a stroke of luck because I’m on the Proctors mailing list, and they had a flash sale, $30 tickets for a couple of different shows if you bought them on September 30th. When I saw that Hadestown was playing on my birthday, I decided that The Universe wanted me to see it. It was great, and it was a Sunday matinee, so we planned for an early-ish dinner afterwards.

We walked up the street to a fairly new restaurant, Milas Restaurant & Bar, which is fancy and special occasion-y. One of our favorite things is to try as many different dishes as possible, so we were very excited that the options included lots of mini-choices, like dips, flatbreads, and small plates. We tried a bunch of different dishes.

Here’s Octopus on the left and Grilled Cucumber on the right. The octopus piece is lounging on a few little cubes of tasty potatoes and a romesco sauce that I liked very much. I had never heard of grilling a cucumber, so we gave it a shot. It was good but not a favorite.

Here are Tirokroketes (Cheese Croquettes) on the left, which were rich and tasty and not too heavy, a hazard with cheese croquettes. On the right, it’s Flash Fried Calamari, and I hate to be super-basic, but this might have been my favorite dish. The calamari was excellent, the pureed caramelized artichoke sauce was fantastic, and I ate every last microgreen.

On a left is feta dip that I don’t see on the menu now — it was super tasty and would almost have tied for first place, but it was possibly a bit too salty, which is saying something, because I love some salt. I’d also totally go back and just drink wine and eat all the dips with bread all night and be super-happy about it. On the right, these are Manti, the beef short rib dumplings, which were tasty and rich.

It was a fantastic vibe and even though we basically opened the place, it was jam-packed quickly. I would definitely go again for a date or a fancy night out, and I love that there are now several great options that are just super-close to Proctors. For Cute W and me, I think we’d both pick The Nest and Milas over Johnny’s.