This isn’t quite a review, but more of a happy response. I went to dinner at Canele with a friend, Whitney of The Kernel, and had a really wonderful time. The place is very small, very intimate, but never stuffy. The kitchen is open for all to see, behind a short bar, and the tables are less than ten feet away from the simmering pots and pans. It feels almost like a friend’s kitchen. The food was excellent across the board and the staff was so friendly, one even shared tidbits off the shoulder of the lamb he was eating at the bar. It’s a story, I’ll tell it sometime.