Monday, February 16, 2004
Okay. So, Valentine's dinner was great and terrible all at once and I don't think it would've been as good otherwise. We had reservations at Ca del Sole, a semi-fancy "northern Italian" place here in town. From what I've gathered, if you wanna charge an extra 12 bucks for the ravioli, you call it northern Italian. I could be wrong.
Okay, so it's only the one menu for that night, a special holiday thing, which is a bummer because you end up paying whatever the hell they charge for whatever the hell they give you. But I was ready for this contingent seeing as how all the other places I looked at getting a reservation for had the same deal.
So it starts off okay...we get to our table a half-hour late since this joint was packed to the rafters. People left and right complaining up a storm. I was gonna be the one guy not to be an asshole to the staff. So, we're eating our bread and olive spread junk. Half hour later, we order. We get to choose this and that from a 5 course dinner. So, we get some bread thing with some cheese thing and caviar. Oooh....fancy. I've never eaten caviar before. I spread it around. It tastes like lox. And if I hadn't had lox before, then it tastes like a fish's vagina, naturally. Then we get some fancy looking salad. It's got some fruity stuff and some nutty stuff. I think it has bits of yam, maybe. And the rest looks like weed pullin's from their back garden. I eat it. It's good. Then we get some kinda blah blah blah fancy name but I figure out it's gnocchi or however that's spelled--anyway, I've had it before. It's good. I ate the basil in it. Not so good. So we get the main course. Linds has the veggie looking thing. I have the veal. The veal is great but it's smothered in a sauce that is reminiscent of....I'm gonna have to go with the fish vagina again, Alex. But a few chews of the delicious baby cow and the flavor sort blended well with the meat...in a seafood genetalia sort of way. It was also covered in shriveled up grapes. No, not raisins. Shriveled up grapes. Linds did not fare as well. The only thing I recognized on her dish was carrots. Everything else looked like something concocted by the Star Trek chef in respect of the Klingon delegates. But finally, we arrived at dessert, which we took with coffee. Coffee: great. Dessert: amazing...some kinda spongey thing with strawberries. Mmm...I can still taste 'em. Oh...by the way...all these courses were like a half hour apart. So we got there at around 915pm and left just this morning, it seems.
We agreed that we'll have to try Ca del Sole again when we can dip into their regular menu. The place really is beautiful and romantic. Just not on February the 14th.
Anyway...it really was a great night. And as far as I'm concerned, my first official Valentine's Day.
Okay, so it's only the one menu for that night, a special holiday thing, which is a bummer because you end up paying whatever the hell they charge for whatever the hell they give you. But I was ready for this contingent seeing as how all the other places I looked at getting a reservation for had the same deal.
So it starts off okay...we get to our table a half-hour late since this joint was packed to the rafters. People left and right complaining up a storm. I was gonna be the one guy not to be an asshole to the staff. So, we're eating our bread and olive spread junk. Half hour later, we order. We get to choose this and that from a 5 course dinner. So, we get some bread thing with some cheese thing and caviar. Oooh....fancy. I've never eaten caviar before. I spread it around. It tastes like lox. And if I hadn't had lox before, then it tastes like a fish's vagina, naturally. Then we get some fancy looking salad. It's got some fruity stuff and some nutty stuff. I think it has bits of yam, maybe. And the rest looks like weed pullin's from their back garden. I eat it. It's good. Then we get some kinda blah blah blah fancy name but I figure out it's gnocchi or however that's spelled--anyway, I've had it before. It's good. I ate the basil in it. Not so good. So we get the main course. Linds has the veggie looking thing. I have the veal. The veal is great but it's smothered in a sauce that is reminiscent of....I'm gonna have to go with the fish vagina again, Alex. But a few chews of the delicious baby cow and the flavor sort blended well with the meat...in a seafood genetalia sort of way. It was also covered in shriveled up grapes. No, not raisins. Shriveled up grapes. Linds did not fare as well. The only thing I recognized on her dish was carrots. Everything else looked like something concocted by the Star Trek chef in respect of the Klingon delegates. But finally, we arrived at dessert, which we took with coffee. Coffee: great. Dessert: amazing...some kinda spongey thing with strawberries. Mmm...I can still taste 'em. Oh...by the way...all these courses were like a half hour apart. So we got there at around 915pm and left just this morning, it seems.
We agreed that we'll have to try Ca del Sole again when we can dip into their regular menu. The place really is beautiful and romantic. Just not on February the 14th.
Anyway...it really was a great night. And as far as I'm concerned, my first official Valentine's Day.
