Today I had brunch with a new friend and her family at this restaurant. I must say it was quite the experience! They unfolded our napkins and put them on our laps and refolded them everytime we left the table. The champagne flowed freely and was very yummy. It was buffet style for brunch. Some of the things I tried on my first trip were: grilled salmon, breakfast sausage, a custom made mini-omlette with mushrooms; peppers; spinach and cheese, french toast with fresh blackberries and raspberries, a blueberry pastry and honeydew juice. Seriously people, everything was freshly made and with the greatest care and attention to detail. On my second trip I tried sushi (I am no longer a sushi virgin!) and french toast with bananas foster. Yum! Then, for dessert I tried chocolate covered strawberries, carrot cake, a fresh chocolate souffle with gran marnier sauce, freshly made mint chocolate chip ice cream and phoenician crunch (which has heath bars crumbled in it) and this amarretto parfait.
The word for the day was opulence. Opulence. I don't think that list does justice to the experience I had this afternoon. There was just great care taken to see that we had everything we needed and the food was rich and overflowing in abundance. I mean, this is how people dined when the feasted in the old days. We ate for, like, two hours. And I don't recommend doing that all the time because it is easy to go to far into gluttony and sloth (and greed, for that matter), but there is some serious value in taking time to savor something rich! Today I got to suck a little marrow out of life. I am grateful for the experience.
2 comments:
this sounds fabulous!
Oh Lauren! It was. There really are no words. As is evidenced by my somewhat dry commentary on the experience.
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