This Sunday, Krystal and I were shopping on Boylston Street and looking for a place to have some lunch. We decided to give Towne a try. Towne is the child of Lidia Shire and Jasper White, although neither of them actually cook there. It also occupies one of the most amazing pieces of real estate in Boston, a corner spot right between Hynes and the Prudential center.

The menu on Sunday is for brunch, so it was mostly breakfast type items with a just a few lunch dishes. Krystal ordered the Brown Sugar Pancakes. There were three good-sized pancakes topped with blueberries, syrup, and a mound of brown sugar cotton candy. The cotton candy was a really cool touch, and tasted great. Overall, though, the dish was cloying. Two kinds of syrup were poured on the pancakes rather than served on the side, and the cotton candy partly melted into the pancakes to make them even sweeter. Krystal only ate about half the dish because it was so sugary.

I ordered the Curry Chicken Salad which was great. The dish included a scoop of chicken salad and a bunch of iceberg lettuce, red onion and radish. There were also a couple of pieces of crispy cracker-bread. The chicken salad had a great flavor, with just the right amount of spice and heat. All the elements went together nicely and I cleaned my plate, enjoying it thoroughly.

Service was great, perhaps a bit too formal. The brunch crowd at Towne was very casual but the staff was dressed to the nines, but that is not a complaint. Our server was very attentive and polite, he even asked if everything was alright when he saw that Krystal did not eat all of her pancakes.

I liked Towne and will definitely return another time. I am especially interested in checking out the dinner menu and the bar scene.