Delight in the Ultimate Prix Fixe Menus: Summer Restaurant Week

Restaurant Week starts next week (August 14th – 19th and 21st – 26th) and we’re breaking out menus and making reservations.  The only time to explore Boston’s best restaurants at a prix fixe cost – it’s one of our favorite bi-annual occurrences!   This summer, we’re celebrating by sharing our favorites with you:

• Courtney hands down picks Mistral, she loves their tuna tartar! Nom nom nom.
• Page is obsessed with the mac ‘n cheese and steak tips at Silvertone (albeit biased since when she’s not working here, she’s working there)!
• Battling it out in the mac ‘n cheese department, Amy picks South End’s Coda.  Perhaps a taste test is in order?
• Fleming’s on Stuart Street is Rich’s pick.  Filet mignon with baked potato & grilled asparagus – need we say more?
• Have you tried the beef carpaccio at Lucca?  It’s Vic’s favorite!
• Sonya’s loves Mamma Maria’s lobster pasta – can you blame her!?
• Because you can never get enough Italian, Jill picks Monica’s in the North End.  Her favorite dish?  The chicken liver gnocchi.
• Tamara can’t stay away from Met Bar’s Blueberries for Sal, her favorite liquid concoction (we’d never exclude a cocktail shout-out!) comprised of Shock Top beer, blueberry vodka and fresh lemon!
• For the best in veggie tasting menus – Laura raves about Ten Tables in Jamaica Plain and aspires to become a regular in the fall!
• Restaurant “newbie,” Red Lantern, gets Mary’s vote.  Make sure you try the amazing appetizers – mmm… duck buns & pan fried pork gyoza.

What Boston restaurant’s are you trying this month?  What’s your all-time favorite?

CE’s Summer Outing

With all the hours that we’ve spent planning the most fun of summer outings – it was time for one of our own.  Creative masterminds, Courtney, Mary and Jill planned a day of fun in the sun for the ladies and Rich starting with a Boston Harbor Islands excursion and ending with creative cocktails.  It was a blast!

Boston’s Best Cruises took us through the Harbor to George’s Island.   Look at that view – we work in such a great city!

Boston Harbor from the Ferry

All aboard!  The CE team cruisin’.

All Aboard!

Check out that Hair!  Zakk holds the world record for the tweet with the most number of words beginning with the letter “P.”

Jill and Zak

Upon arrival at  George’s Island, it was time for a lunch by Summer Shack – yum!

Summer Shack Dining on George's Island

Then it was on to the Boston Athletic Club to work off the fried food!  We started with a lesson from a pro and finished with a series of singles and doubles matches.

Tennis at the Boston Athletic Club

The Beehive: the perfect ending to an awesome day!  Significant others joined us for drinks and bites at the bar downstairs.

Vic, Will, Kevin, Amy

Vic, Isabel, Taylor, Amy, Courtney

Vassar, Jill, Rich, Tom

Laura, Vanessa

Mary and Vassar had "dessert!"

Fill us in on what your company did over the last few months to celebrate summer!