After reading Ann Patchet’s Tom Lake for one of my book groups, where they put on a production of “Our Town,” by Thornton Wilder, we realized that show was coming to Broadway and vowed to go together. We did.

I highly recommend the production with Jim Parsons playing the narrator.

Before the show, we opted for the $65 three-course pre-fix dinner at Kellari Taverna. We all nibbled the olives, hummus and radishes. One started with the cauliflower soup, and the other three enjoyed their gently pan-fried tender calamari with onions, peppers, capers and fava bean spread.

One chose the swordfish daily special, another the lavraki (also called branzino or Mediterranean sea bass) with sauteed spinach, while two of us indulged in their pasture-raised baby lamb chops, grilled and served with a potato and grilled asparagus.

I had to look up one of the dessert selections, as I wasn’t familiar with Kormos sokolatas. First, I laughed that it was called chocolate salami. Then, in reading further, I learned it is a traditional no-bake Greek dessert consisting of crushed biscuits and dark chocolate. One ordered the baklava, and the rest of us tried the rich “salami” served with fresh fruit. I recommend either.

Kellari Taverna
Theatre District
19 W 44th St
New York, NY 10036
(212) 221-0144
kellariny.com