Lunch should have its own thread

[Silas Loom]

We are going to a restaurant for lunch to celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary. Plates are designed to be shared and the recommendation is three savoury dishes per person. So we can choose six from the following:

Oyster & blackcurrant
Cod's roe, quail egg & sorrel
Pickled radish
Finocchiona salami
Duck rillette & prune
Purple sprouting broccoli, pistachio & ewe's yogurt
Badger flame, Tropea & Jerusalem artichoke
Kohlrabi, apple & brown shrimp
Trout, fennel & bergamot
Crab, cara cara & sea beat
Clam, saffron & 'nduja
Cod, girolle & corn
Cep, Coco de Bretagne & parsley
Pork, muscat & collard greens
Beef, walnut & Spenwood

Puddings are more straightforward:

Pevensey Blue, Whin Yeats & fig
Fior di latte, blackberry & rose geranium
Chocolate torte & crème fraîche
Fragola sorbet & almond


Everything looks enticing. I reckon roe, duck, badger*, trout, clam, pork and beef would be good choices, and would not be excessive if we forego pudding, but I would welcome advice.

Edit on returning - final decision was roe/oyster, duck, kohlrabi, badger, cod, beef, torte, sorbet - and it was all very nice indeed. My wife was just pointing out that even while I was struggling to manoeuvre my chair out of their tiny lift and across a crowded restaurant to our table, they still addressed me as if I was a human (albeit one who needed help with a complicated spatial problem), rather than speaking over me to her, as staff invariably do in hospitals and shops and restaurants here in the suburbs.

Sessions Arts Club in Clerkenwell heartily endorsed.

*Disappointingly, some sort of beetroot

 

[sojourner]

Tinned sardines, homemade red cabbage kraut, Romaine leaves, garlic-stuffed green olives.

Pineapple and a tangerine.

 

[Siouxsie]

Leek & potato soup with garlic and herb croutons.
Toffee fudge doughnut.

 

[sojourner]

Beans on toast with lashings of hot sauce.

Mango.

 

[Siouxsie]

Chunky pea & ham soup with a crusty roll..it was ever so tasty
Another toffee fudge doughnut
I can't get warm today and I needed the extra padding.....that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it....bit like the toffee on my fingers

 

[Siouxsie]

Lasagne, garlic bread and a side salad.

 

[Numbers]

2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, handful of walnuts, 2 boiled eggs.

 

[furluxor]

Camembert on rye crackers, I'm too underslept (and possibly hungover) to do better.

2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, handful of walnuts, 2 boiled eggs.

Olive oil in a shot glass, no doubt! Yours is the weirdest lunch.

 

[sojourner]

Leftover macaroni cheese

Apple and a tangerine.