Showing posts with label happy birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label happy birthday. Show all posts

Thursday, October 11, 2018

Birthday celebration

So we went to Oriole (as you do) to celebrate Phil's birthday - his actual birthday is a day later than we celebrated because of a scheduling conflict LOL... but we still got it in.

we met up with friends Lee & Nick and Todd & Evelyn at the restaurant - the food was fabulous and for the wines we had an excellent 2014 Chassagne Montrachet La Romanee from Vincent Dancer and a 1996 Corton Renardes from Delarche and a 1989? Château d'Yquem with dessert (those were the best in my opinion) the 2002 St Innocent Freedom Hill showed very well and a magnum of J. Richard champagne did too- although it deteriorated over time (it was from the mid 1990s) and a Chablis that was just OK - I would have called it flawed - bottle variation but not corked- somehow just some funky thing going on... who knows?????

anyway let's start the celebration-


the menu begins-





















the night before we had Chinese at a nearby favorite - as opposed to the ones further away LOL









kung pao beef, salt & pepper scallop, dry chili chicken, scallion pancake, combo fried rice and house special hot & sour soup- what's not to like on a chilly fall evening?

as always more to come with Kiki's and Oceanique and Bien me Sabe on the horizon --- along with packing and prepping for heading south- stay tuned....