Monday, April 30, 2012

Honey in Northside


Thursday April 26

Our friend John Miller was in town to give a lecture, so we joined Peter and Kathryn in taking him out to dinner at Honey.
Honey is very much a neighborhood place, so it was humming even on a Thursday.  Luckily they had a free table, comfy chairs, and a friendly,  attentive server whose red hair made her resemble a Toulouse-Lautrec pastel.
Of course we had to have appetizers along with our wine (lecturing is thirsty business).  One was a special, crabcake on spinach and Israeli couscous.  It came with a thatch of sprouts and chive blossom, sprinkled with crispy rice noodles, and a smear of seasoned mayo, so it was well up in the height category as well as tasting nicely crabby.  The other was P.E.I. mussels (thanks, Canada!) in a surprising honey peach-citrus cream.  Honey is a frequent ingredient at honey.
"Ribeye" was on the chalkboard outside, so we had to have a generous wodge of medium-rare, along with chilpotle butter, asparagus (again!) and sweet potato hash.  Our other main was a New Fish, Kingklip.  Though the fish itself looks eely, the fillet was lush and white, nicely seared alongside some (slightly over-roasted) baby root vegetables.
Honey is a bit quirky, but on the whole, it satisfies.

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