The Boot now serving brunch, Italian-style
The best way to start brunch at the Boot, the cozy Italian restaurant in Westport created by Aaron Confessori and Rich Wiles, is with an order of frittelle di mele, the airy but yeast-free (who knew?) fried apple fritters, each glazed with a spoonful of a sugar-and-orange-juice icing. I could eat a plate of them by myself. In fact, I did last Sunday, dining after church with my friend Martha who refused to sample even one of the warm pastries.
“I’m on a diet,” she said.
Well, I am, too, but it’s a diet of my own creation that luckily includes apple fritters, lemon ricotta pancakes, brioche French toast and scrambled eggs – all of which are served at this restaurant’s one-month-old brunch, served both Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
