Menton, one of our most anticipated spring venues—and also one of the most highly awaited Boston restaurants in years—officially opened its doors last week.
The restaurant, three years in the making, is the final link in local celebrity chef Barbara Lynch's back-to-back-to-back Fort Point channel mini-empire. Joining Sportello and Drink, it is the first eatery to bring high-end dining to this increasingly hip neighborhood.
Named for a small village near the French-Italian border, Menton serves four- and seven-course prix-fixe menus that will change often to utilize seasonal ingredients. So far the offerings include butter soup with razor clams, lobster tail, and caviar and terrine of foie gras du canard with truffles and muscat grapes. An extensive French and Italian wine list includes 20 champagnes.
To set the mood, a Murano glass chandelier hangs over the silver leather reception desk inside the front door. The main dining room features Italian wood veneer walls, modern art, a semi-open kitchen, and 15 small tables surrounded by 60 black slat-back chairs.
Elsewhere, a private dining room outfitted with silk wall coverings and Philippe Starck ghost chairs seats 50. On the opposite side of the kitchen, the chef's table, a glass-fronted room with an up-close kitchen view, seats 14.