Thursday 10 March
Our neighborhood boîte, La Poste, just changed its name
to Harvest, to go with a new (pretty old everywhere else) farm-to-table
theme. So we thought we'd take our
esteemed lecturer, Joe Greene, and a couple of colleagues there to try it out.
One nice touch of the new spirit was
that, unlike the old days, they had some less expensive wines to choose from. Since most of us were
eating fish, we went with Pilastri Pecorino “Organic” white from Offida, quite
flinty but easy to drink.
Some of the dishes were unchanged,
like the appetizer of P.E.I. mussels with white wine, chorizo, roasted
tomatoes, arugula, and grilled bread.
The beef and pork meatballs with vodka cream sauce, however, were new,
and both choices were pretty good.
Our mains were a nice slice of
pan-fried Faroe Island salmon on a schmear of cauliflower puree, with roasted brussel
sprouts and dots of beet reduction; and some tasty pan-seared diver scallops
atop spinach fettuccine, with squash, zucchini, and pancetta gastrique.
The new Harvest is not so different
from the old La Poste, but what changes we saw were good ones.
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