Dining pick of the week: The Barrymore
Royal Resort, 99 Convention Center Drive, 407-5303
The 1940s Hollywood era is alive and well at The Barrymore, a classic dining room evoking a time we occasionally relive while watching old black and white movies. But there’s nothing black and white about this colorful place, with a menu featuring such sophisticated appetizers as oysters Rockefeller, mussels meuniere, steak tartare, French onion or chicken matzo ball soup, lobster deviled eggs and the spicy Barrymore shrimp cocktail. Dinner entrees include fisherman stew, 14-ounce New York strip, Colorado rack of lamb, salmon, diver scallops, squash curry and a handsome 32-ounce bone-in cowboy rib-eye for two that has been aged 24 days. Breakfast features Greek yogurt with granola, Irish steel-cut oatmeal, fruit smoothies, crispy pork belly Benedict, brioche French toast and The Full English consisting of two fried eggs, beans, sage sausage, grilled ham, roasted tomato, hash browns and English muffin. Popular lunch items are steak frites, California turkey burger, tuna nicoise, grilled chicken club, Caesar with chicken or shrimp and Maine lobster roll. Dinner entrees begin at $13.50 and lunch at $10.50. The Barrymore serves breakfast daily from 7 to 10:30 a.m. and lunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dinner begins at 5 p.m.
— Jack Bulavsky
