mike and i seemed to have made up for the fact that our hotel and airfare were paid for this weekend (thanks to ff miles and vineyard brands for the "groovey room" at the w hotel) by spending a small fortune at restaurant elizabeth daniel. i'll leave it to wheel to post more detail (he took notes, of course). best vietnamese food ever at the slanted door with an old friend of mike's on sunday. p.s. summer is married and very happy. lovely wedding at restaurant 42 degrees - mw and i were the last to leave the party (as per usual) - couldn't get him off the dance floor...
if the Slanted Door was in NYC we would have dinner there once or twice a week!!!
Linda, it is a burden you must bear to eat good food with the Wheel.
Elizabeth Daniel is for the rich, the honeymoon'ers, or one whom eat first pay rent later--well really our bill was the most we ever spent and they gave us about $100 worth of free dessert wines the bill was 75% wine but anyone could eat there with good inexpensive wine for apox $150 person and i recommand you do--but as it was such a production i will mention the faults (IMHO) 1) the butter was not so flavorful and if they cook with it and they are cooking with butter than that is sad (and i think some dishes were too buttery)
2) the plates are hard to move as the silverware doesnt hold on them and its hard to get the last drops and i wasnt in the mood for licking---the good 1) with all the little free mini dishes there were 9 courses and while some were very good some were outstanding (salmon tartare/ahi in a lime herb gel/and the best dish of the night a rolled sole it was purrfection) 2) the staff was cool smooth and very knowlegable 3) great wines ($$$$) 4) tables not too crowded********
again i dont eat meat so i could not try thier famous sweatbread ravioli in truffle sauce etc....
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- linda 9-12-2000 1:45 am
if the Slanted Door was in NYC we would have dinner there once or twice a week!!!
- Skinny 9-12-2000 2:43 am [add a comment]
Linda, it is a burden you must bear to eat good food with the Wheel.
- jim 9-12-2000 2:08 pm [add a comment]
Never mind the food, I wanna dance with him!
- alex 9-12-2000 5:58 pm [add a comment]
Elizabeth Daniel is for the rich, the honeymoon'ers, or one whom eat first pay rent later--well really our bill was the most we ever spent and they gave us about $100 worth of free dessert wines the bill was 75% wine but anyone could eat there with good inexpensive wine for apox $150 person and i recommand you do--but as it was such a production i will mention the faults (IMHO) 1) the butter was not so flavorful and if they cook with it and they are cooking with butter than that is sad (and i think some dishes were too buttery) 2) the plates are hard to move as the silverware doesnt hold on them and its hard to get the last drops and i wasnt in the mood for licking---the good 1) with all the little free mini dishes there were 9 courses and while some were very good some were outstanding (salmon tartare/ahi in a lime herb gel/and the best dish of the night a rolled sole it was purrfection) 2) the staff was cool smooth and very knowlegable 3) great wines ($$$$) 4) tables not too crowded******** again i dont eat meat so i could not try thier famous sweatbread ravioli in truffle sauce etc....
- Skinny 9-12-2000 10:46 pm [add a comment]