But this is September, when the backyard gardens on Mount Washington are overflowing with fresh, bright red tomatoes and our salads have wedges of hard, pink under-ripe tomatoes. The menu is generally traditional, from veal chops to strip steaks, pasta with marinara sauce to chicken piccata, and several fish and seafood selections. The Shiloh Inn claims to make the best crab cakes in the city. They arrive golden on top, the crab fresh and sweet, with a container of a creamy sauce of lemon, butter and chicken broth for dipping. They are very good.
Swordfish steak is served with a caper butter sauce.
Excellent, says H.H., except that the thin ends are overdone. Sole Shiloh comes with more of that good lump crab on top and a creamy shrimp sauce, but it's a little overdone. Red-skinned potatoes are served plain, which is OK with us, but one night they were barely warm. Ratatouille, a nice change from the usual vegetable selections at this time of year, is sweet. I like it.