Dining Again with Jen

Roasted long green chilies with fleur de sel

Spicy green mango pickles

Too austere? Cafe Drake set what we hoped would be a calming, cool table in these hectic and hazy days of August.

Jen Ruske guards carefully a bowl of aloo chaat. We also dined on cauliflower with mustard and cumin seeds, jicama and lime salad and a rich coconut string bean curry.