{"id":201,"date":"2012-02-13T11:06:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T16:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=201"},"modified":"2012-02-15T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T15:15:25","slug":"restaurant-eve-tasting-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Eve Tasting Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had dinner with some good friends at Restaurant Eve in Alexandria, Virginia on Saturday night.\u00a0 We chose to do the chef’s choice 9 course tasting menu.\u00a0 Here are the 9+ dishes (there were some additions to the official 9 courses along the way):<\/p>\n

We started with the sashimi of steelhead trout with caramelized shallot relish and truffle vinaigrette seen here:<\/p>\n

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This was followed by what the restaurant calls OOO, which stands for Osetra caviar, oysters, and onions in a puff pastry.<\/p>\n

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Next was poached Maine lobster with spring garlic cream, cumin-grapefruit relish and crisp shiitakes:<\/p>\n

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This was followed by pan roasted Dover sole with red pepper aioli and pearl onions.<\/p>\n

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Then we had pan fried veal sweetbreads with creamed spinach, Jerusalem artichokes and crisp Parmesan (I know that sweetbreads are supposed to be all sorts of yummy, but I just cannot eat them.\u00a0 It’s kind of like rabbit–I just can’t wrap my brain around the fact that I would be eating Thumper.)\u00a0 Those at the table who did eat them said they were quite good.<\/p>\n

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The meat course was antelope on a pine nut polenta cake:<\/p>\n

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The cheese course was blue cheese, which was enjoyed only by Jim.\u00a0 The restaurant very graciously and kindly swapped out the rest of our barely touched blue cheese courses for a goat cheese course, which was enjoyed…only by Jim.<\/p>\n

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We had two pre-dessert courses–an ice cream sandwich made with gingersnaps and pumpkin ice cream and a smoked cinnamon yogurt with blood orange gelee, pepper cracklings, and mint ice cream.<\/p>\n

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The final course was a chocolate root beer float, consisting of a roll of chocolate cake, milk chocolate ice cream, vanilla mousse and root beer coulis:<\/p>\n

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My personal favorites were the sashimi of steelhead trout and the gingersnap ice cream sandwich.\u00a0 Overall, we gave Restaurant Eve a B+.\u00a0 The food was excellent and the service was superb.\u00a0 There was just nothing that was knock your socks off impressive, although everything was delicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had dinner with some good friends at Restaurant Eve in Alexandria, Virginia on Saturday night.\u00a0 We chose to do the chef’s choice 9 course tasting menu.\u00a0 Here are the 9+ dishes (there were some additions to the official 9 courses along the way): We started with the sashimi of steelhead trout with caramelized shallot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[31,331],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-restaurant-eve","tag-restaurants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-3f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}