Three Latest and Best
Too busy to eat! Plus, getting ready for the onslaught of holiday parties and dinners which starts tonight. So here's a very abbreviated Three Latest and Best. Don't worry -- next week's will be long and plentiful!
Bone-in Ribeye at Mo's: Sure, you've heard me looking for prime rib lately, but this fantastic steak is the closest one might get to prime rib nirvana at a downtown steakhouse. Thick, perfectly marked, and still sizzling with fatty goodness. This is a steak.
Favorite Dish of the Year: Two words people: Mussaman Curry. At Sawasdee. That is all.
Triple Cream Brie from Trader Joe's: One can find bries all over town, yea, verily, I say unto you, even a double cream is to be had at many a decadent cheese counter, but nay, oh, nary a counter carries a triple cream brie. Only Trader Joe's. Which is sort of strange, but not really an issue when you're serving champagne. A luscious, melty, salty triple cream is the only thing for it.
What I Should Have Ordered -- the Raspberry Lemonade at City Cafe: So, I found myself at City Cafe this week for lunch and I had a nice, safe chicken sandwich. (You've got to respect a place that won't change the menu or make modifications by request. That turkey wrap is always a wrap -- not available as a sandwich.) That said, I'm still mad at myself for not ordering the raspberry lemonade. Note to self: When *everyone* has a glass, it's probably worth a try.
10 comments:
I've never understood the attraction to brie and brie-style cheeses (usually rubbery and devoid of flavor) until I encountered a very good one as part of a cheese course at Le Soleil. I believe it was St. Felician, but a close approximation is Saint Marcellin, or even better Epoisses (both available at Taste and a few other places around town).
Though maybe not technically a brie, Saint-André cheese (also a triple cream) is available all over. And I'd bet anything that the Cheese Shop at the "Fashion Mall" has, or can easily get, whatever cheese you're looking for. I have nothing much, good or bad, to say about the cheese at Trader Joe's, but, I can say that the accompanying SAUSAGE is horrendous - think slimy with the aroma of an infected anal gland. Granted, it may have been "one bad experience", but it...well...left a bad taste (and smell, and visual) in my mouth/nose/senses.
I don't love that St. Andre (and I don't think it's a full triple cream -- I think it's double cream), *occasionally* they have another triple cream that's really great. It has to be gooey *and* salty to suit me. (I'm with you, though, those bland, boring, bries are worth skipping.)
I don't go to Cheese Shop much anymore because they don't have anything really special and their prices are high. Vine and Table still has a pretty good selection and otherwise, I've started ordering from Artisan (for those great stinky, oozy French cheeses) or trying really special one-offs like they have at The Goose.
I'm in *total* agreement about TJ's sausages. Why on earth would you eat those when you can get good local sausages -- Kinkaid's, Joe's Butcher Shop, and The Goose, not to mention Claus' all do great work.
braingirl wrote:
"I've started ordering from Artisan (for those great stinky, oozy French cheeses)"
Where are they on the net?
http://www.igourmet.com
http://www.artisanalcheese.com/
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http://www.artisanalcheese.com/
An aside: Has anyone been to Meridian? I'd like to see their menu, but alas they have no web site.
Early reports have started to trickle in today. (All positive.) I'll have a few preveiws tomorrow. No menus online that I know of. It's on my book for dinner next week so I should have a "First Impressions" for you then.
How can you not have a website these days?! Shame on you Meridian!
http://www.meridianonmeridian.com/
We went for a drink this evening on our way home but didn't eat. The place was packed and had a great buzz. The space is nice. The menu and the food we saw looked really uninspired. But, for a neighborhood place the menu is more than adequate.
...for a neighborhood place...$20 pastas...and $5 dollar sides make for quite an upscale neighborhood!
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