SO after hearing Timo was closing, I had to go and eat before they do, something I had meaning to do, but somehow it's just a challenge to drag oneself downtown when there are so many great places in the 'burbs that aren't such a drive...
Well it was this past Sat, and turned out to be a pleasant but slightly surreal dinner.
It was snowing rather hard, and despite the hubs request for a dinner home by the fire, I made the case for now or never- plus the kids were stashed on an overnight so no sitter was required (another plus)
As we walked in, we were pleasantly greeted and informed the power was out in half the restaurant, but the kitchen was OK.
OK so no problem. BUT no sooner had we sat down that the entire place goes dark, and the power is completely lost.
So we had some wine and bread, and eventually some lobster bisque by candlelight while they figured if they were cooking or what...
It was very humorous and romantic.
They ultimately decided to try and cook slowly for the tables (about 4) that were seated, so we went ahead and held our candles over the menu and ordered, I had the parmesan shrimp, hubs the butternut squash ravioli, followed by the pork and polenta for me and a special of baby rack of lamb over asparagus risotto for hubs. Everything was way delicious, and they surprised us at the end with glasses of prosecco and a warm chocolate cake with mocha ice cream on the house for the challenges of the candlelit dinner. Our parking ended up comped as well.
The really funny part was as we were leaving and chatting with Chef B, he said something like, I guess I was supposed to sing to get the lights back on and broke into a rousing chorus of Hava Nagila, but THEN the AMAZING thing is as soon as he finished, THE LIGHTS CAME ON !!!!!
TRUE STORY
WONDERFUL EVENING
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irisarbor on December 17th, 2007, 9:25 am, edited 1 time in total.
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