Birch & Vine -- recent review
Just tried it for the first time (it's in Tuftonboro). Hostess and server were both very friendly and the decor was attractive. We shared a wedge salad, my husband had a surf & turf special, and I had scampi. Salad was excellent. Husband's entree was pretty good but he asked for med-rare and the steak was well-done. The scampi was loaded with garlic but seemed to have absolutely no salt in it. I think they'd even used unsalted butter! I had to ask for salt, dumped on an enormous amount (and I don't like extremely salty food!), but it still didn't have enough flavor so I borrowed a shaker of Parmesan from another table. I had noticed that the woman at that table was dumping tons of Parm on HER scampi, so obviously it wasn't just me. Couple this with the fact that the food and drinks took a very long time to arrive... and I don't think we'll be going back here. Too bad; we want to support new endeavors like this, but...
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