Thursday Sips & Nibbles

I'm back again with a new edition of Sips & Nibbles, my regular column where I highlight some interesting, upcoming food and drink events. I hope everyone dines out safely, tips well and are nice to their servers.
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1) Dine Out Boston will take place from February 23-March 15, three weeks of dining specials. And here are some participating restaurants which might interest you.

Abe & Louie’s: A two-course prix fixe menu ($32) for weekday lunch. For starters, choose between a mushroom soup with fresh clams, bacon, potato and thyme, or a Boston bibb salad with goat cheese, tomato, cucumber and vinaigrette. Entrée options include marinated steak tips with garlic aioli and hand-cut fries, or miso baked cod with ginger carrot puree and shishito pepper. 

Atlantic Fish Co.: A weekday lunch menu ($32) with a choice of three appetizers – littleneck clams, shrimp ceviche, or a kale salad – as well as a trio of entrees: a smoked salmon BLT with lemon-dill aioli and dill chips; blue crab pasta with squid ink, toy box tomatoes, saffron and lemon; and miso-glazed haddock with wasabi mashed potatoes and roasted carrots. 

Bistro 5: A three-course dinner menu ($55) with a choice of four appetizers--Calamari, Organic Greens, Beef Carpaccio, or Involtino--and a choice of four entrees--Gnocchi, Tagliatelle Bolognese, Maine Lemon Sole, or Stuffed Chicken. 

Coach Grill: A three-course dinner menu ($65) available Sunday through Friday. To start there is cheddar and broccoli soup, or a bibb salad with candied pecans, cinnamon apples, bleu cheese crumbles and lemon vinaigrette. The entrees are penne alla vodka with prosciutto and English peas in a tomato-cream sauce; marinated steak tips with whipped potatoes, green beans and natural jus; or chicken Milanese with arugula, lemon and shaved parmesan. For desserts, a choice of limoncello raspberry cake with raspberry compote and vanilla ice cream, or banana cream pie with chocolate shavings. 

Select Oyster Bar: They offer six dishes, for both lunch and dinner, and for Lunch you can choose any 2 courses ($36) or any 3 courses ($55), and Dinner is any 3 courses ($55). Courses include Yellow Fin Crudo, Sardine Toast, Beet Salad, Maine Lobster Chowder, Sugar Pumpkin Risotto, and Dijon Crusted Hake.