| | There's a moderately upscale restaurant, Bistro Liaison, in Berkeley which is serving an "economic stimulus meal" for $28. It's of a 4 course prix fixe menu with a glass of wine which is a pretty good deal for a place like this. Unfortunately, the food was underwhelming. Today, the menu was
1) Soppressatta (french salami) with marinated olives
2) Salad Mescal (or a cold beet soup)
3) Pork tenderloin nuggets with some kind of sauce
4) Cream puffs with ice cream and chocolate sauce
Choice of a glass of Bourdeaux or some white wine.
The wine was a good table wine. I don't think there was anything super special about it, but it was reasonably complex but easy to drink. The items were meh for the most part. The pork was very tender, but if one were paranoid about food safety, one might complain that it was undercooked. I didn't mind that though. What I didn't like was that, there was a smokiness to it that was a little too pungent (not a nice smooth hickory smoke but something a little bitter), that plus, it would've been nice to have a little more sauce. The ice cream in the cream puff was very good, but the cream puff itself didn't add anything. It just felt like a dense dough. Also, there was too much chocolate sauce. It didn't have good balance. The item I liked the most was the salami with olives, but I only liked one kind of olive. Well, at least it was much, much more filling than I expected it to be. Oh well, should've gone to la rose with my restaurant.com gc to try the duck confit and be a little hungry after the meal.  |
| | Posted 4/7/2009 2:37 AM - 5 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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