2,555 + a leap day
Jun. 25th, 2008 09:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kismet09To celebrate anniversary number seven, we went to Oleana. We have dubbed Oleana our favorite restaurant in the Boston area.
We ate:
Warm Olives with Za'atar
Appetizer special - fresh homemade mozzarella with arugula, beet carpaccio, candied walnuts over cherry sauce with pomegranate vinaigrette
Fried Haloumi Cheese & Spring Onion Dolma with Walnuts, Sesame and Rhubarb
Fava Bean Pate, Soft Boiled Egg & Wilted Spniach with Fried Almonds and Za'atar
Spicy Fideos & Chick Peas with Green Chard & Orange Aioli
Crispy Duck with butter Toasted Pita, Cinnamon Rice Pilaf, Fresh Chick Peas, Eggplant
It was tasty. Especially the duck skin. Mmm duck skin. They brought things out in courses - olives, then the two cheeses (yay flaming cheese), then the fava, fideos and duck. It was a good selection, and a reasonable amount of food, especially since we managed to not ask for seconds on the bread basket. The selection of wines by the glass was plentiful, so we split a white cotes du rhone, and Tim had a grenache. I felt a little ill from my half glass. It's probably about time that I give up drinking wine and beer, and just stick to martinis, which don't have the same effect. We sat in a secluded corner table in the bar side of the restaurant, surrounded by wine bottles. It was much less hectic than sitting in the somewhat crowded dining room. We were too full for dessert, and nothing was so inviting that we wanted to overstuff ourselves. We bought some Pie Guy mini pies on the way home, but Tim fell asleep on the couch before he got to eat any.
We ate:
Warm Olives with Za'atar
Appetizer special - fresh homemade mozzarella with arugula, beet carpaccio, candied walnuts over cherry sauce with pomegranate vinaigrette
Fried Haloumi Cheese & Spring Onion Dolma with Walnuts, Sesame and Rhubarb
Fava Bean Pate, Soft Boiled Egg & Wilted Spniach with Fried Almonds and Za'atar
Spicy Fideos & Chick Peas with Green Chard & Orange Aioli
Crispy Duck with butter Toasted Pita, Cinnamon Rice Pilaf, Fresh Chick Peas, Eggplant
It was tasty. Especially the duck skin. Mmm duck skin. They brought things out in courses - olives, then the two cheeses (yay flaming cheese), then the fava, fideos and duck. It was a good selection, and a reasonable amount of food, especially since we managed to not ask for seconds on the bread basket. The selection of wines by the glass was plentiful, so we split a white cotes du rhone, and Tim had a grenache. I felt a little ill from my half glass. It's probably about time that I give up drinking wine and beer, and just stick to martinis, which don't have the same effect. We sat in a secluded corner table in the bar side of the restaurant, surrounded by wine bottles. It was much less hectic than sitting in the somewhat crowded dining room. We were too full for dessert, and nothing was so inviting that we wanted to overstuff ourselves. We bought some Pie Guy mini pies on the way home, but Tim fell asleep on the couch before he got to eat any.
