Your future food affair with Doug Papows and how it will begin.......

How many restaurants have you eaten at?  How many times was the experience one that was so pleasing that you were able to forget all your troubles and just enjoy what you were eating.  Flavors that consumed you to the point of real bliss.  Everyday? Once a month?  How many times has your soul been set free just by picking the right place to eat?
Finding a place to eat that you love is daunting.  It is an intimate relationship that is based on the culmination of many events all fitting your personal criteria for a perfect dining affair.  Like every relationship, there is trust involved.  Trust in the chef that is preparing your meals.  Trust that their choices of flavors will please you.  Trust that you will sit down and order and be moments away from a very specific experience that is going to bring you to a place that you enjoy being.  WHAT that place is like is completely up to you.  HOW you will get there relies on the chef.
This person creates food that you will think about on the train, at the beach, during a staff meeting.  A little smile will cross your face and you will find yourself thinking of something they have made for you recently and want it RIGHT THEN!
What a beautiful moment.
Doug Papows* is a chef and a native of Gloucester, MA.  A traveler and an artist he has created a personal style of cooking that is a little bit fusion and a little bit down-home.  Beautifully presented and farm fresh.  He has an eye for color and enjoys presenting not just a plate of food but a total flavor experience.  You will have an immediate sense from your menu choices that you are "being taken care of".  You will be right.  Your meal will arrive and you will anticipate your first bite.  As you eat you will want to share with everyone at the table just to have them "taste what you are tasting"and "feel what you are feeling".  But they will have their own meals and be on their own journeys.  It's ok.  You can start to fall in love with your food.  This is an affair that will continue.  When your plates have been cleared and you are sipping your wine or enjoying dessert, Don't Panic!  There will be a next time........................just relax and enjoy yourself.


*Chef Doug Papows is the Executive Chef of Foreign Affairs Wine Bar & Bistro at 26 Central St
Manchester-by-the-sea, MA.  Scheduled Grand Opening is MAY 2013.