Thursday 6 November
After a fun talk about orphans in the ancient world by Mark Golden, the Brock Dept. took him out to Pow-Wow Restaurant. Service was, to be frank, excruciatingly slow; the food only so-so.
Starters were all right: some nice little mussels in cream with leeks, and a very pleasant phyllo nest cradling an egg of goat cheese and topped with pickled red onions.
The main courses, however, bordered on the unpleasant. A beef tenderloin, rightly cooked to medium-rare, was topped with a gelatinous brown sauce (supposedly a "cranberry port demiglace") which reminded at least one of us of the gravy that used to come on TV dinner Salisbury steak. A grouper was rendered towel-like and served with an absolutely tasteless red-pepper sauce. Ah well . . .
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