Dine LA Week is here once more and it is exciting to go the the website to look at the participating restaurants. For those who are not familiar with DineLa Week; A bunch of restaurants participate and posts set menus for lunch and dinner. Lunch varies from $15-$25, and dinner from $25-$45. It's a great opportunity to try them out. Too many restaurants, so little time. You can even click on the menu to see what they are offering for a 3 or 4 course meal. Most of the restaurants are "fine dining"
When I saw that the Polenta was the 1st course and the 3rd course was the Budino dessert, I figured they could have had oatmeal for an entree and I still would have gone. It was an opportunity to celebrate Cynthia's birthday.
For anyone who has not tasted polenta before, I promise it to be "love at first bite." If you have had polenta before, this will be your "first affair". This was served with a fricassee of truffled mushrooms. It truly was just wonderful!
For our entree, all 3 of us decided on the Short Rib Agnolotti cooked with brown butter, hazelnuts and horseradish. We have had the cod before which was good but not outstanding. These little pasta filled short ribs were great...salty...no need for parmesan.
Dessert was a no brainer...we all decided on the Vanilla Caramel Budino with chocolate sable cookies. We also have had this dessert before and remembered how good it was, with the combination of sweet, salty, crunchy and just plain sinful.
I had made this reservation through opentable.com with a note to the restaurant that we were celebrating a birthday. I called on the day of our dinner to ask if they did anything for celebrating a birthday and they said, " Yes, we have it down, and we normally put a candle on the dessert."
Budino came and went and there was no candle. Does this mean my friend is still the same age? She can only wish.
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