New Haven Restaurant Week- Bespoke
New Haven, CT is having their Spring 2010 Restaurant Week from Sunday, April 18 - Friday, April 23 2010. While there are plenty of restaurants to choose from we had the pleasure of dining at Bespoke . The restaurant was offering a prix fix, three course lunch and dinner menu with an appetizer, entrée, and dessert for $29. We ordered the Romaine Salad and the Merguez Sausage dishes for appetizers. The salad was fresh and light while the sausage dish with was filled with slices of tasty sausage with a balanced amount of chickpeas and tomato, with a perfect touch of spiciness along with plenty of sauce to soak up with the grilled bread pieces. For the dinner one of us had the New England Shellfish - smoked ham, mussels; clams, truffle gnocchi. We wanted a dish not too heavy with gnocchi and this fit the bill perfectly. The clams and mussels sat in a scrumptious sauce with the lightest, fluffiest gnocchi I have ever tasted. I had the Coffee Cured Hanger Steak - with melted m