Another year has passed.
And, as I’d been expecting, I was underwhelmed again.
Very few people that are close to me even remembered that it was my birthday.
The Everyman took me to Globe Bistro for dinner. We went there for our anniversary in December, so I was looking forward to tasting some more of their menu. I was a little bummed that there weren’t as many delicious sounding things as there had been last time though. As is my custom, I asked to see the dessert menu before ordering. For some reason they’re featuring a selection of British desserts right now – sticky toffee pudding, trifle and bread pudding. Interesting.
We were served some delicious red fife wheat bread to start, with that amazing, smoky hummus – yum! Then, we were brought an amuse bouche of puff pastry with goat cheese, caramelized onions, and a grape half. It was so good I commented to the Everyman that I wished I could have 10 more.
The last time we visited, I’d had scallops with pork belly and they were absolutely divine. The Everyman had ordered a special called jump up soup, which was a Caribbean spiced soup with peanuts that he thought was great and spicy, but I thought was gross.
Anyhow, for our first course, I decided to have scallops (again) and the Everyman had a beef consomme with cheddar and caramelized onions. My scallops came with frizzled prosciutto, creme fraiche, pumpernickel croutons and a winter squash puree. The plate was stunning. Their presentation is always gorgeous, very colorful and artistic. The food was amazing too. The squash puree was so good I ended up using not only the scallop to mop it up, but also an extra slice of bread. I tried a few sips of the Everyman’s consomme, and it was yumlicious; beefy and reminded me of french onion soup. I thought it was a nice touch that they brought the broth out separately and poured the carafe of it tableside. Everyman says: Consomme gooooooood.