#26
Posted: 2/3/12 at 3:14pm
Butter was amazing. To begin, the service was incredible. Our waitress was friendly, attentive (without being cloying), and extremely knowledgeable about the menu and dishes. Great service always starts an evening out off right.
I had the pasta, which had a nice spice balance with just enough kick. It also wasn't too heavy, which I had feared, for an appetizer. The duck was delicious, with wonderfully crisp skin.
My vegetarian friend enjoyed the salad (I took a bite and agree that the dressing was a lovely surprise) and the ravioli, which he's still talking about. We ended up splitting two desserts: the sticky toffee pudding (best I've ever had) and the lime sorbet, which is served with a beautifully sweet kumquat jam.
As for cocktails, The Brown Derby didn't disappoint this bourbon lover. My friend had their Negroni, which is basically just the classic recipe using Bombay Sapphire as the gin. No frills, as it should be.
I had the pasta, which had a nice spice balance with just enough kick. It also wasn't too heavy, which I had feared, for an appetizer. The duck was delicious, with wonderfully crisp skin.
My vegetarian friend enjoyed the salad (I took a bite and agree that the dressing was a lovely surprise) and the ravioli, which he's still talking about. We ended up splitting two desserts: the sticky toffee pudding (best I've ever had) and the lime sorbet, which is served with a beautifully sweet kumquat jam.
As for cocktails, The Brown Derby didn't disappoint this bourbon lover. My friend had their Negroni, which is basically just the classic recipe using Bombay Sapphire as the gin. No frills, as it should be.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
