Disappointment and Surprise
On Saturday morning, Jes and I took Koa to Chrissy Field for a Shiba Meet-up. We were supposed to meet a bunch of other Shiba owners and their dogs for a day of romping on the beach but we got there a little late and totally missed them. We walked and walked and couldn’t find them. So, Koa ended up with a really long walk and about 20 minutes of running off-leash on the grassy field and beach. The morning didn’t go quite as planned. Too bad, Dog.
On Saturday evening, Jes and I went out for a nice dinner at Luce. It’s a relatively new restaurant that we found on Open Table and thought we’d give it a try. Have completely no expectations, we were pleasantly surprised with the awesome 5-course tasting dinner that we had. Apparently when you order the 5-course menu, you end up with 11 actual items to try. We had an amuse-bouche, all 5 courses, and a sprinkling of intermezzos, palate cleansers, and even a pre-dessert. What the heck?! It ended up being a 3-hour dinner and we left satisfied and buzzed.
One of my favorites was the foie gras on top of toasted brioche drizzled with a duck consumme. Yum.
Another was the pre-dessert consisting of melon granita, ricotta cream (tasted like coconut milk), and basil oil. Sounds gross but it was sooooo tasty. I seriously felt like I was a judge on Top Chef with surprise after surprise. One of the funniest parts of dinner was the fact that we were puzzled by about 3/4 of the menu items. That’s when Google came in handy. On my crackberry, I looked up things like “escabeche”, “purslane”, “branzini”, and “pintade”. We were so ghetto but it was very educational.
Johnny
Sunday, August 3, 2008luxo ghetto.
Joy
Sunday, August 3, 2008awww…did you take anymore pictures of the food?!
beakatude
Sunday, August 3, 2008Yep, I think I took a photo of each dish but missed the quail. 10/11 ain’t bad.