23/12/16 Barcino
Brunch 2:30 PM Saturday
https://www.barcino.com/watertown/watertown-menu
Brunch at Barcino
We arrived just before the Saturday brunch menu closed at 3 PM, appetites whetted after holiday shopping. Good start when our server remembers us from a previous visit. And got better when brunch arrived.
My wild mushroom and smoked mozzarella omelet and tri-color salad was a little symphony of taste and texture. Fluffy and light, topped with thin shaved squares of parmesan cheese, it was a perfect reward after delivering holiday gifts to friends.
My dining companion’s arugula salad was served as ordered without cheese. Restaurants are used to accommodating patrons with allergies or intolerances for certain foods - and Barcino is up to the task.
Barcino occupies the space known by locals as Stellina’s, IMHO the best restaurant ever to grace Watertown Square and a casualty of the pandemic in 2020. A classic floor plan, polished mahogany bar on one side and tables set behind a low partition on the other, it was always busy, Veteran servers knew when to leave you be and when to appear when you made eye contact. Owners Ginny Curcio at the front and her late husband Frank Curcio anchoring the kitchen, kept the flame going for 34 years. It took a pandemic to close the beloved place down.
Never fear. The spirit Stellina’s, a legacy front to back, service to kitchen, is alive and well at Barcino,
Photos by Paul A.Tamburello, Jr.
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