I said to myself that I was not going to get three courses, because I simply cannot eat that much, however, I could not resist ordering an entrée of Confit Petuna trout, Alaskan crab, avocado, green tomato gazpacho with apple sorbet on the menu.
Forgive my crassitude, but those chunks of trout were like sex in my mouth. A-mazing.
For main, I had Yellowfin tuna with brioche crust, octopus, green olive tapenade, fennel, radish, orange and pecans. Again, the fish was just a melt in your mouth delight. Although, two bites in, I felt really full. Really full. Damn that entrée! But I took a little break, and persevered. If I had been wearing a belt, I would have loosened it.
Being one who can never ever not have dessert, I of course, against all my body’s pleading to not feed it anymore, had dessert. If soufflé is on the menu, I always get it. It was. And I got it. Raspberry with Valrhona chocolate sorbet. Delicious. Fluffy, like a cloud at sunset, undercut superbly by the sharp, rich chocolate sorbet.
Vino was as follows: a glass of Gewürztraminer, musky, floral, delicate, with my trout and crab followed by a bottle of Carlei Heathcote Shoraz 2004; A buxom red with a lot of depth, kind of like a good woman.
I nearly had to be carried out of the restaurant on a stretcher as I was so incredibly full.
