jducoeur

Having just finished the leftovers, a few conclusions about TooHot, a new restaurant in Harvard Square:

Far as I can tell, it is seriously authentic Szechuan, not something one often comes across in these parts.
As a consequence, the name of the restaurant is accurate. The waiter asked whether I wanted it "mild", and I said no, I like spicy, so "medium" maybe? As I suspected, "medium" is somewhere near the top of my spice tolerance: this place really likes its peppers.
It's already impressively popular (after being open just a few months), especially with people who are actually Chinese (based on glancing at the crowd) -- at 6pm on a Tuesday, they had to think about whether they could seat three people without reservations.
The specialties of the house are also pretty authentic.
Authentic Szechuan apparently involves a lot of frog.
Frog mostly tastes like chicken, except with a lot more bones.
So many bones.
Too many bones.

So overall: excellent restaurant, especially if you like spicy food. But I think the frog dishes may be more effort than I'm willing to put in.

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