"Crabtacular Pumpkin" at Sushi Nabe
Friday night. Tempura fried kombucha squash with spicy imitation crab on top. I like this a lot.
Caterpillar roll- tasty, but didn't taste freshly made-- a little too much sauce covering up the other flavors.
Buffet at Sitar Indian restaurant: I liked the dosa... Mildly flavored with the pleasant pop and crunch of toasted mustard seeds. Their naan was chewy like an unleavened bread. Chickpea salad was yummy, as was the okra. The aloo bangam had big chunks of eggplant. Other dishes like chicken tikka were not very fresh tasting... I think they recycled dried out tandoori chicken by dousing it with bland sauce.
Joe sniffing Sangre de Toro wine at Terra Nostra Tapas & Wine.
Cheese plate. Loved the chive and horse radish havarti and the manchengo (?) blue cheese was super moldy tasting and the three goat cheese was novel. Also the pimento cheese was unexpected and not remotely like southern pimento cheese spread. Swiss was just familiar Swiss cheese.
Foreground: prime beef olive and raisin empanada was Joe's favorite. Neither of us were crazy about the shrimp and avocado... Too rich and not enough bite, though the shrimp were fresh tasting and the avocado was perfectly ripe. Maybe a larger portion of greens would have helped.
Dates stuffed with blue cheese, cream cheese and bacon. Tasty and completely reproducible.
The best part: Mexican flan-- custardy smooth with the cocoa intensity of flour less chocolate cake, with a pinch of cayenne pepper.
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