Dan R.
Yelp
"You can fly, you can glide, you can dream
You can see through this interactive vision stream"
(Yes)
The Fire + Ice website describes their restaurant experience as "interactive", so what exactly does that mean? Well, if you've ever been to a Mongolian Barbecue/Grill place before, you know the answer. You walk through their huge variety of vegetables, starches, proteins, sauces, and toppings, then bring your dish to their big circular grille where it gets cooked up right before your eyes. The versatility of the ingredients and sauces gives you Asian, Italian, American, and Latin accented meals.
I've been to Fire + Ice at other locations in Cambridge, MA and Nanuet NY, but those locations are long gone. In fact, The Boston Fire + Ice is just one of their four remaining locations, alongside Anaheim, Lake Tahoe, and San Francisco.
Dining here is a very fun experience. This place is kind of like the twisted lovechild of a salad bar and an all-you-can- buffet. The salad bar has all kinds of vegetables and pastas that will sooner or later end up in your dinner.
And there are plenty of proteins - raw chicken or beef or seafood or fish. The game-plan is this- you fill up your bowl with as much as you can cram in there, pour any of a dozen sauces into a small cup, and walk on over to an enormous circular grill where the staff will cook up your concoction.
They push and probe your food with giant spatulas until thoroughly cooked, add your sauce as a finishing touch, then pour the hot steaming mass onto your plate. The sauces can make your concoction into any ethnic food in the world- from Thai to Mexican to Szechuan to whatever.
The place is a hoot, and our private party of 35 loved it.