Wednesday 9 September
Kathleen kindly invited us and
Lauren out to dinner with tonight's speaker, Peter Schertz, at our local
bistro, La Poste. We haven't been there
for a couple of years, so it was a chance to catch up with what they're doing.
Since it was a humid summer night
(what else?), Holt chose us a Verdicchio, Tenuta di Tavignano Villa Torre,
which proved to be lightly sweet but charming.
As starters, we went for a prosciutto-wrapped
stilton salad (looking like an overgrown caterpillar on a plate - and it was, after all, full of lettuce leaves), and steamed mussels
with aromatics and cherry tomatoes. We
had always liked La Poste's mussels, but though as pretty as ever, these turned
out to be oversteamed and scrawny.
Though the main course of salmon
and varied vedge was pretty good, the multicolored Israeli couscous it topped
was bland. Same went for the seared
scallops and cherry tomatoes on risotto: the base of the dish was underseasoned
and overcooked.
La Poste is too established, not
to mention too pricey, to get away with these elementary mistakes. Not a good sign for the future.
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