
Cure’s New Autumn Menu Is A Delicious Mixed Bag Of Influences
A large, stylized painting of Bradd Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club looms over you while you eat Cure. The place is dimly lit, and would be quite menacing if your pop cultural predilections don't slant that way; or more importantly, if you weren't made to feel at home the way they do at the restaurant. It's in the name, Cure being short for "curare", the Latin word for "to take care of". The name might be Latin, but chef-owner Andrew Walsh draws ideas from anywhere he is, and has been. The Jason Atherton protege puts out precise plates of unfussy, distinctly modern European dishes most of the time. Although there might be references to his Irish heritage in a dish of potatoes and seaweed, or homemade Irish cream…