Todd and I celebrated our friend, John's, Memorial Weekend visit by dining with him at one of my local favorites, Bastone. Having opened around two years ago in a '30s-era building on Main, Bastone is a stylish, noisy, Belgian-style brasserie, specializing in European fare and house-brewed beers. Todd and I each began with a pint of the evening's special beer, a Belgian brown that has become of one my personal favorites to date, while John had a glass of the house Chardonnay. We shared a cheese plate, featuring an aged gruyere, a creamy blue, and some other unidentified, but still tasty, third. Usually, my immediate move is to order their classic steamed mussels and pomme frites, but I opted for a different direction, with a bowl of hearty, bacon-laden potato-leek soup, accompanied by a plate of crisp-fried artichoke hearts. Todd opted for the fish and chips, a departure from his usual order of seafood "waterzooi," a traditional Belgian seafood stew. John ordered one of Bastone's popular "tartes," a crispy pizza topped with bacon, herbs, and caramelized onions. As always, Bastone did not fail to satisfy, and will therefore remain toward the top of my list of local dining faves. Photo from michiganmenu.com
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