Seasons 52

Seasons 52 Restaurant Review:

Most dishes at this popular upscale chain have fewer than 500 calories, yet the choices --- from appetizers to desserts --- are full of flavor and prepared with fresh seasonal ingredients. A few favorites have earned year-round status. Duck wing "lollipops” with a red chili glaze, followed by an organic field greens salad sprinkled with pumpkin seeds are fun starts to the meal. Entrées range from oak-grilled cobia with vegetable succotash to Southern-style shrimp and grits and a grilled rack of lamb. Mediterranean vegetable soup and black bean chili may be ordered by the cup or bowl. While desserts such as mocha macchiato chocolate cake and raspberry chocolate chip cannoli are small in size, they are big in satisfaction. The well-selected wine list is long, and mixed drinks specials are plenty and most satisfying to sip while enjoying the mellow piano music from the adjoining bar. Deeply stained dark wood, low lights, high-backed booths and beamed ceilings exude a cozy-yet-tony feel.