foooooood

It is Restaurant Week in my town, which means that many high and higher-end eateries lay on special prix-fixe menus in the hopes of hooking patrons for later full-priced visits. Sometimes that works out - B&R and I went to one of our favorite special-occasion restaurants during a restaurant week and have been back many times. Other times, we just take advantage of the opportunity to have a meal that ordinarily would fall outside our budget.

Tonight we went to a restaurant that specializes in "progressive Israeli cusine." That means we had delicious hummus, a platter of eight different salads from tabouli through shredded-beets-with-tahini, and then made choices off a tapas-like menu. We had fried haloumi (a kind of sheeps-milk cheese) with a fruity sauce, fried califlower in yogurt-mint sauce, house-smoked salmon with dill, yogurt, and a kind of fruit we never identified, and sauteed brussel sprouts with whipped feta cheese, and then grilled fish with potatoes (for B&R) and grilled chicken confit with couscous (for me.) And, finally, poached pinapple with pineapple sorbet and pistachio shortbread and almond semifreddo with hazelnut crisp for dessert.

For the ultimate in indulgence, I also had a cocktail called The British Mandate - black-tea-infused gin with lemon and citrus bitters. Unsurprisingly, given my powerful taste for imperialistic alcoholic beverages (India Pale Ale and G&Ts), I found it delicious. B&R had an excellent drink of bourbon, muddled mint, lemon, and verbena.

In short, yum.