Early this year, special correspondent Robbin Seipold reported the opening of briq in the former bespoke location on College Street. I decided to try a nibble there on my way to opening night of “Clybourne Park” at Long Wharf.

I enjoyed a glass of Felsner Gruner Veltliner (available both by glass $8, and bottle $34) while deciding what to order. Our server raved about the “burrata pasta pillow,” a vegetarian option of fresh-baked semolina pasta stuffed with a Wisconsin BelGioioso burrata and grana padano, and topped with a fresh tomato sauce. Sounded like such a good idea, but not. It’s a truly ordinary dish, consisting of a thin crepe-like pasta — more crisp than tender — with a tomato sauce that I kept tasting all night. Not pleasant.

But what was pleasant was the thought-provoking production of the Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning “Clybourne Park,” directed by Associate Artistic Director Eric Ting, which is on the Mainstage through June 2, 2013 (tickets $40-$70). After the show conversation was nonstop discussing how race and real estate collided in this play that begins in 1959 as one couple sells their home to a black family. Act II is in the same house fifty years later — with the same cast in different parts — when a white family attempts to move into the now predominantly African-American neighborhood.  Skip briq (or just go for drinks and nibbles) but don’t miss “Clybourne Park.”
– bonnie

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