Left Bank opens

So I went to the opening of Left Bank at Stonehedge Inn last week and if first impressions are accurate, it's smashing. Rejoice, we have a cool place to blow our week's paycheck. The menu is upscale American, a term the restaurant industry hates, but applicable. Grilled Atlantic swordfish with sweet potato, fava bean and morel mushroom (they are sprouting on every menu) hash and lobster sauce $29. Points for creativity. The other thing that's hiting the rest. scene hard lately is aioli. ummm! love those international foddie-words. It shows up here w/ garlic on buttermilk marinated fried calamari. There is halibut. salmon and poached lobster, but the show-stopper is Kobe beef tenderloin $55 ...
Too upscale for greater Lowell? They seem to draw a healthy crowd from Boston. At the opening the crew from Chronicle was there. The lounge is pretty stylin'. Black leather chairs, low couches, candles and a new flatscreen TV. Updated (ie. younger) look has much to do w/ the new GM cutie Tay Boskurt. check it out!! Pawtucket Blvd., Tyngsboro