A Few Things I've Eaten in the Past Week
*Correction - I originally posted the bistro menu as 2 courses for $21 - it is, of course a much better value than that, at 3 courses for $21. I regret the error.*
I thought I'd throw in a few pictures of unreviewed food from restaurants I've talked about a lot - there isn't a lot of cooking in our house this week as Husband and I are busy working . . . in addition to my usual job, I will be playing wine goddess this week at a wine tasting, where I will pretend to know something about wines from Austria - should be fun! What the tasters don't know is, 90% of what I will say I will have learned over the next 24 hours. Oops - I guess I just let out my secret.
At the Refectory last week for the bistro menu (you should really try it if you never have - 3 courses for $21), Husband and I started of with the chilled lamb loin appetizer from the regular menu. Rare lamb loin sliced thin and served on a bed of roasted peppers with pepper coulis - you should really try cold lamb sometime, it's wonderful:
From the bistro menu, we chose a seafoud coulibiac, kind of a mixed seafood pate in a pastry shell. Very tasty. Sadly, at that point the LCD display on my camera started to go a bit wonky and we had to cease taking pictures. Nothing serious, thankfully, just a low battery.
Later in the week, we went to Kihachi to celebrate our anniversary. Yea us! We had house made pickles of cucmbers and cabbage:
I had my first (and probably last) sea cucumber:
We had this scary-looking loach (I hope that's right):
We had pregnant, caviar-filled fish:
We had a (flower? vegetable?) I've never tried, called mioga, kind of like a floral onion, which chef Kimura grew in his own yard, and then boiled and and lightly pickled in mirin:
And we had this lovely and simple plate of broiled Japanese peppers:
I'll share more eating escapades as they happen - if they happen what with all the work and the like. . .
Info: Kihachi 2667 Federated Blvd Columbus (Dublin) 614.764.9040
The Refectory 1092 Bethel Road (Arlington Area) 614.451.9774 website
