Unfortunately,the aroma that hits you as you walk in the door is not a matter of taste. However,the cuttlefish in squid ink is so good it's worth taking a deep breath and heading for the dining-room. The texture was perfect. In no way was it chewy, and the deep black ink was permeated with the sea. The paella was wonderful though I rather wished we hadn't chosen it as we missed a whole lot of interesting-sounding dishes of the day that were reeled off to the next table.
Fish arrives daily from Boston.
He chooses the subject for his column from wherever he happens to be at the time. Not long ago, he happened to be in Pittsburgh, to receive the 1996 Richard Rodgers Award for excellence in Musical Theater from the Civic Light Opera at the Benedum Center. During the afternoon of Sept. 28, hours before he received the award, Weber arranged to tour the Heinz plant on the North Side and visit the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He also dined at Mallorca, on the South Side. A few weeks later, this column appeared in the Telegraph.