Saturday, June 19, 2010

food log: Friday, June 18

PB on toast, OJ
PB toasts and OJ
Merguez, baked pasta, tomato salad, bread, cherry cake, lemonade from the bistro - $6
Mergues, baked pasta, tomato salad, bread, lemonade, cherry cake from the bistro $6
I am still in love with the family-style serving.
merguez plate
Diet Coke - $1.25
Diet Coke - $1.25
For dinner, I joined my tweeter girls for an unforgettable night at Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel. Eric Gonzalez is a master chef! And the terrasse is so amazingly relaxing, it's a perfect spot to enjoy a lazy Montreal evening.


Bubbly
Bubbly
A taste of Katerine's fruit juice cocktail
Katerine refreshing fruit juice cocktail

With the amuse and appetizer, we enjoyed a lovely chardonnay (no pic)
Arancini
Arancini amuse-bouche
Golden dark chocolate sphere filled with a foie gras mousse of sort. Amazingly original.
Golden dark chocolate sphere filled with a foie gras concoction
Golden dark chocolate sphere filled with a foie gras concoction
HUGE platter of mixed seafood for one, including razor clam, oyster, fried calamari, snow crab, a scallop and a giant scampi. (sorry about the shaky pics, it was dark and romanticaly lit in there and I tried my best)
My huge seafood plater
Snow crab
Scallop
With the entrée, we had a bottle of Aquinas Pinot Noir. 
Aquinas Pinot Noir
I have to share that we let our waiter Fred decide on the wine all evening long, and his choices were spot-on.

Sweetbreads, peas, pea purée, cromesquis

Sweetbread, peas, cromesquis
Pre-dessert: a refreshing shooter filled with a fresh raspberry, vodka, a jelly cube of sort and fruity liquid
Pre-dessert
pre-dessert
I am not very good at describing how delicate and aromatic this was. Summer in a shooter glass.
Mixed dessert plate : lots of good stuff including butter cookies with jam, molten chocolate cake, caramelized bananas, coffee-chocolate lollipops with Bailey's, rapsberry and verbena creams, and some crunchy- caramely sweet thing.
Shared dessert platter
My plate of dessert
Vin gris
Vin gris
Dinner for one including alcohol and tip was $134.33. And worth every penny.

Money spent on food today: $141.58

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