You always wonder whether a restaurant is consistent or has changed since you wrote about it. I’ve been sending people to Venus in Easthampton, calling it, “perhaps the best restaurant in the area.” Mostly, the feedback is good–no place is perfect, after all–but I was talking with a friend the other day.
In my first review, I called her “the young woman about town,” and mentioned how she liked Apollo Grill, Casey Douglass’ first restaurant. She’s now a young mother, less about town perhaps, but still eating out. She said she and her husband had eaten at Venus last weekend. “I kept saying, ‘I don’t like…’ whatever it was and then I tasted it and it was wonderful.”
Someone else I sent there told me it was a great choice. So, Venus is holding its own.
