Our coupon was for two 3 course tasting menus, and there were 2 options for each course, so we decided to just get the exact opposite of each other so we could try all 6 dishes. Here were our appetizers:
a mixed salad with pecan crusted goat cheese and blueberry vinaigrette
and duck breast wrapped in bacon in a dipping sauce.
The salad was awesome! SO delicious! That ball of crusted goat cheese was to die for. Then it was time for the main course.
trout with mango jalapeno aioli with ancho paint (???)
and prime tenderloin in a jalapeno hollandaise
The trout was absolutely delicious, and while the beef was also good, the portion size was very small! On to the desserts...
caramel pecan pie dipped in belgium chocolate,
and peach cobbler.
I am usually a huge dessert fanatic, but neither of these really were that amazing to me. I got the chocolate thing, and just read pecan and chocolate but didn't realize it was a PECAN PIE dipped in chocolate. Those aren't my favorite, and it was very very rich. The peach cobbler was pretty good, but also not my favorite.
Then we came back and opened a bottle of wine, since we didn't get any at the restaurant. Since we used to be members of the Chisholm Trail wine club and had quite a few different bottles, we decided to open one of those.
This is the 2006 Diablo. It is 70% syrah and 30% lenoir. This wine was pretty good, but not great. I looked online since I forgot how much we paid for it, and for wine club members it is $18. It tasted a tad on the sour side to us - not enough to think it was corked, but just a little weird tasting. It was good overall but it wasn't too interesting nor did it have any defining characteristics. I'm not sure I would buy it again for $18, but I think we actually had 2 bottles of this somehow lol, so I will get to try it again some other time. Anyway, the night was fun, and we played a new game we had, called Quirkle - very fun and just the right amount of thinking for a night like this.
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