Katie's been working a ton of late, which has led to lots of dinners out. We're going out tonight for the sixth night in a row! Last night we tried Solera, a fancy tapas restaurant.
Here's Katie posing for the camera at our table:
Katie took a goofy-looking picture of me drinking some sherry:
After dinner we went to see a touring company perform a stage version of Sweeney Todd. This particular production was interesting, in that the actors were also the musicians. This made for a very intimate performance, but I walked away very disappointed. Although it was a nice idea, the talent they were able to procure suffered from the much narrower talent pool of singers/actors also able to play an instrument. One would think that the producers could have overcome this issue by paying the actors a double salary (since no additional musicians were needed), but now I doubt that was done. Everything suffered, essentially: the ones who were better at playing their instrument were worse at singing, the ones who could sing well were hopeless at their instruments, and no one seemed to collect enough focus to be very musical. The novelty of the staging did not make up for all of that.
On Thursday, we went to Heartland (right now my second favorite restaurant) to celebrate Gabe's birthday with his wife Christy and two friends of theirs. I started with a beet salad with bleu cheese and then had the rack of goat. Gabe is quite a gourmand, and has taught himself how to cook at that level, too. Katie and I do make forays sometimes into haute cuisine, but the results have been mixed: sometimes wonderful, but sometimes not very exciting. I would love it if I could consistently make such wondrous flavors, but from my own kitchen, I feel I enjoy simple foods more consistently. Gabe is truly a wonderful cook, though, and Katie and I feel fortunate to be invited occasionally over to his house for the amazing food. For an idea of what he can do, here's the menu he devised and then cooked for his birthday last year:
It was amazing. The tuna tartare was particularly memorable. (It's making me salivate right now just thinking about it.) I really love food!
Here's Katie posing for the camera at our table:
Katie took a goofy-looking picture of me drinking some sherry:
After dinner we went to see a touring company perform a stage version of Sweeney Todd. This particular production was interesting, in that the actors were also the musicians. This made for a very intimate performance, but I walked away very disappointed. Although it was a nice idea, the talent they were able to procure suffered from the much narrower talent pool of singers/actors also able to play an instrument. One would think that the producers could have overcome this issue by paying the actors a double salary (since no additional musicians were needed), but now I doubt that was done. Everything suffered, essentially: the ones who were better at playing their instrument were worse at singing, the ones who could sing well were hopeless at their instruments, and no one seemed to collect enough focus to be very musical. The novelty of the staging did not make up for all of that.On Thursday, we went to Heartland (right now my second favorite restaurant) to celebrate Gabe's birthday with his wife Christy and two friends of theirs. I started with a beet salad with bleu cheese and then had the rack of goat. Gabe is quite a gourmand, and has taught himself how to cook at that level, too. Katie and I do make forays sometimes into haute cuisine, but the results have been mixed: sometimes wonderful, but sometimes not very exciting. I would love it if I could consistently make such wondrous flavors, but from my own kitchen, I feel I enjoy simple foods more consistently. Gabe is truly a wonderful cook, though, and Katie and I feel fortunate to be invited occasionally over to his house for the amazing food. For an idea of what he can do, here's the menu he devised and then cooked for his birthday last year:
It was amazing. The tuna tartare was particularly memorable. (It's making me salivate right now just thinking about it.) I really love food!
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