"There’s only one place we know of where you can eat a lobster meatball on a stick, drink an affordable glass of wine, then play the French version of bocce known as pétanque, and it’s Maison Yaki. This is the latest spot from the people behind Olmsted, and the menu is a mashup of French and Japanese food. There are a lot of little skewers of things like pork belly, duck a l’orange, and ribeye, and there are also some small plates like tempura frog legs and cauliflower okonomiyaki. And pretty much everything is worth ordering. But portions are pretty small, so we recommend using this place for mainly drinks and snack. A very good snack that precedes a round of pétanque." - bryan kim, hillary reinsberg