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| - The Breadfruit, as it is now, makes me sad. Sweet Pea and I were early Breadfruit adopters, back when there weren't dozens of great restaurants downtown, back when it was a tiny place with no liquor license where you could BYOB, sit with 10 or so other people, and watch one guy cook your dinner. Breadfruit has changed a lot, and not for the better.
I suggested Breadfruit for dinner before an event because we hadn't been there in a year at least, and Sweet Pea loves the Jerk Chicken, and I love the Coconut Curried Tofu. So we get there, and like 3 separate people asked us if we have a reservation. It hadn't even occurred to me to make a reservation for 6pm, even on a Saturday night, but the place was full. After they told us that it will either be an HOUR for a table, or we can sit at the bar, we decided to sit at the bar since our event started at 7:30pm, and I generally don't mind eating at the bar anyway. Unfortunately we ended up with me sitting on the end by the service well so it was sub-optimal. Also, when I picked up the drink menu, there was a dead moth underneath that I had to brush away.
The bartender poured us some waters and asked us if we've been there, and we said yes. Then Sweet Pea ordered a Dark and Stormy, which is a very typical rum drink, this being a rum bar and all. The bartender says "uh, we like to keep it on-menu...have you been here before?" AWKWARD. No, we were lying. We explained that we had, but that it had been awhile, and then we felt like crap. After all the "do you have reservations" inquiries and now this, we felt unwelcome and out of place. Rearding the Dark and Stormy, ever since they opened Rum Bar, they've been all uppity about their rum drink menu. I have been there and tried to order a rum and diet and been smacked down hard because G-d forbid they serve such a pollutant as DIET COKE with their beloved rum. Whatever. But a Dark and Stormy is a CLASSIC rum cocktail! The best they could offer Sweet Pea "if he likes Dark and Stormys " was a mojito which is NOTHING like a dark and stormy! He got it, and I tasted it, and honestly it may be the best mojito I've ever had. But still. I tried to order an iced tea, but they didn't have that either. I considered sparkling water but noticed it listed on the beverage menu, like all the rums, with its country of origin (Mexico) and decided against it.
We ordered the Plantain Avocado Spring Rolls to split. Then Sweet Pea tried to order the Jerk Chicken which has to be most peoples' main reason to go to a Jamaican restaurant, but they told him they don't have it, although it's on the menu. What they did offer instead was a half chicken something or other, which is not on the menu, but is $5 more and doesn't even have jerk spice. He decided to order the Jerk Pork and Polenta instead.
The Spring Rolls were pretty pedestrian (and small at 2 rolls split in half for $10), and it just made us miss the Patties they used to have. They gave us a "palate cleanser" in between courses which was unnecessary but speaks to what this place now envisions itself as having become. My tofu was the same as always- good, and Sweet Pea did really like his Jerk Pork, but we both miss the "old" Breadfruit, and with all of the restaurants that we now have downtown, we will most likely not be coming back. It's a shame.
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