What a meal it was.
First, an appetizer of squid stuffed with chorizo, giving it a salty smokiness—a glorious surprise when eating a squid dish. It was like that sea creature and the spicy Spanish sausage were meant to be together (who would've thunk?). My favorite part was the small curled tentacles that sat underneath the main body, soaking up all of that lovely jus. Yum. And lucky for me, Steve, my sweetheart of a husband, was happy to relinquish them all. Maybe he gave them up because we were out celebrating our fifth anniversary?
Next I had a salad of heirloom tomatoes, big wedges of sunny yellow and deep red flesh, seasoned simply with salt, pepper, olive oil, and basil. So simple, yet so delicious. Talk about letting the ingredients really sing.
Steve had a salad of fresh (sweet!) peas, cucumber, and fresh ricotta. Another amazing display of simplicity at its finest.
For the main course, we both went for fish. He had salmon, served atop the aptly named beluga lentils (which look like caviar and taste like heaven). I had cod swimming (not literally) in the most flavorful broth, accompanied by "Jefferson beans," which we think might be the same as the long beans we're growing in the garden. Ours are good, but chef Ian Boden's are better.
By the time the dessert menu arrived, we were simply too full. But the "chocolate soup" lingers in our minds—as much because our top-notch waitress revealed it's what all the waitstaff ask about when the night is over ("Got any of that chocolate soup left over?") as for its bizarrely intriguing name. All I know is we'll certainly be back again.
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