$25 for a three course lunch. It was fabulous.
Course 1: I had a grilled eggplant salad which was served with warm creamy goat cheese that integrated the salad. It was the special salad of the day. Dining companions had a creamy corn soup which was also very good, light. Another ordered the frisee salad with pears, which was a mound of frisee, so pretty!
Course 2: All but one of us went with the highly recommended parpadelle with rabbit. It was really good. I said "what does rabbit taste like?" and everyone predictably said "chicken" but that really wasn't true. Since I've never had it before, this could be in the preparation, but the rabbit was very moist and tender and it had more flavor than chicken. It's a flavor I don't feel confident in describing right now (I must admit that although the time stamp says otherwise, this is not live blogging from the restaurant. Live blogging makes me want to vomit, which wouldn't be good in a restaurant.)
Course 3: The best course, as always. 2 people went with the flourless chocolate cake with coffee ice cream, a safe choice. I tried it and it was good, the cake wasn't overwhelmingly chocolate, although it would have been too dry without the ice cream. I had the panna cotta, what a dream. So light and delicate, and as the waiter served it to me, he poured about half a tablespoon of aged balsamic vinegar on it. Sounds bad, right? It's not! The tartness of the vinegar cuts the sweetness of the dessert and the sweet cream highlights the sweet flavor of the vinegar (it was very very mild).
Four stars, what a deal. Although you might want to dress up a little, we got looks when we all went in there lookin' unemployed, which we all were (all but one of us, but she had already changed into jeans). I am loving Houston.
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My guess is that the rabbit tastes "gamey." Ha! That's what they always say about meat that isn't pork, chicken, or beef. I think that gamey means that it doesn't taste like a flavorless product of modern agriculture.
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