Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Fine Dining vs. Dinner

So here is Gary having fun with his "Mardi Gras" birthday present and Lisa. Both are dear friends and they are also a couple. We met up at 6:30pm for dinner at 94 Stewart. It is a wonderful restaurant. Seriously, it is too fabulous. This is Lindz and she is the daughter of the owner plus she was nice enough to stop by and show a Fried Avocado salad before we go and dump it like we did not once, but twice at our table as you can see below. It is an amazing salad with sections of Fried Avocado plus crab, tomato, corn salsa and lettuce. Can you say YUM! Below are the other two appetizers that we decided to get for the meal. The cheese fondue that was amazing. First up though, was the Bacon Chopped Salad which included: Applewood smoked bacon, curly endive, maple glazed walnuts, honeycrisp apple with creamy bacon dressing. Now, the fondue consisted of Nic’s phenomenal cheeses, cream, truffle herbs served with Grand Central semolina baguette. With the wonderful appetizers done and done it was intended to share pictures of the main course, but you will need to accept this picture of empty plates. Yes, it was a delight. Lisa opted for their Spinach Salad which included fresh baby spinach, Dilled Rollingstone Chevre and champagne vinaigrette plus lemon toasted pumpkin seeds. Gary went for Shellfish and Ravioli composed of scampi filled ravioli complete with sweet shrimp, dungeness crab, san Marzano tomato with butter, herbs and Parmigiano. Yours truly decided to go for Roast Moulard Duck Breast with foie gras & dried cherry demi glace. While it included mashed potatoes and asparagus they were pretty forgetable and so I left them. But not to worry. We also got an order of the Quattro Mac made with Pasta, Nic’s Quattro cheese blend plus heavy cream. totally amazing. What a meal. Wine and dessert complete the meal. Gary and I both opted for wine by the glass and quite nice while dessert was a trio of the homemade tarts. Gary went for the dense chocolate with a salted caramel glaze while Lisa opted for the banana chocolate tart. I went completely different with Lemon lavender and it was fresh yet light. An amazing meal that had us parting company 4 hours later at half past 10. Now that was a lovely meal.

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