6.8.10

Campton Place Restaurant -
Ate here today for another Dine About Town meal. We had the carrot soup with a few spring pea morsels, herbs and a dollop of creme fraiche. For our main courses we had the steelhead trout (the most amazing crisped buttery skin) which came with two beautiful mussels out of the shell, spinach, and a deliciously creamy sauce AND the steak (fabulously tender and flavorful) with a veal jus, rapini, and potato velouté (hint of truffle). For dessert we had a lemon meringue tart with a raspberry sauce. The meal was delicious - yum yum.

6.4.10

Dine About Town. Dinner at Isa on Steiner at Chestnut Street. We had calamari with flageolet beans, mussels in traditional white wine, garlic, and parsley brothy goodness. For our mains we had the pork chop with rapini and cheesy polenta and duck breast with huckleberries, arugula, and beets. This was topped off with a dessert of mascarpone, strawberry and huckleberry trifle and a grapefruit granita. The calamari and duck breast tasted oddly similar (some sort of honey-5-spice rub) and much to my surprise ... so did the trifle (huckleberry 5 spice). I thought I might have been losing it but when my dining partner tasted and agreed I decided there was indeed a little five-spice slipped into the huckleberry mascarpone creation (trifle a la Joey Tribbiani). The mussels started us off on a good note but I think it was downhill from there. Nothing terrible but nothing worth writing home, or maybe a blog entry about.