It has been a while hasn’t it? I’ve been so busy with life and work, and now all the wedding stuff is creeping up. I was waiting for this time to come so I would have more to write about, but it seems that there’s no time to blog about all the current events! I can’t believe we are down to double digit days now… we were over 400 days away when this blog started.

Last week was our tasting at the hotel, and J and I both took our mums and had an absolute blast. Why couldn’t every meal involve nibbling off everyone’s plates, unlimited beverages, customized desserts and perfect service?

Overall, the food was quite tasty and we were happy with our selections of entrées. Of course, how the food will turn out on the wedding night is questionable – I’m not that naïve to think that a meal for 5 is the same as 250, but it’s still good to know that food was yum at the tasting and the presentation was nice. I’d be on the right track to think that I won’t be eating much that night anyway.

I know everyone loves food photos, so here are a few of the desserts that the chef made that night – and I’m only showing them because we aren’t going with any of them. From top to bottom: Lemon Meringue tart (it was so fun plucking off each one of those spikes and eating them), Key Lime tart and Warm Apple Blossom.

Problem was, as lovely and sweet they looked, the desserts really left something to be desired. After discussion between us and the hotel, we’re heading back for a dessert re-tasting. Yessss!!!! If anyone has any good ideas for dessert, please pass them over to me because I can give the chef some suggestions for our next tasting.

Sorry to everyone for my extremely delayed follow-up to my adventure at the Oliver & Bonacini special event – last week was a complete write-off (no pun intended) for me as I was busy with some projects. But I’m back!

So on Thursday, April 23, J and I were invited to an event called Eight Chefs, hosted by Oliver & Bonacini restaurants, at the Board of Trade. I was expecting a delicious night of free food and booze, and they delivered! There were 8 different food stations, each with food created by a chef from an O&B restaurant.

These few photos are taken from oliverandbonacini.com. Prepare yourself for foodie delights.

For your convenience, I also put them in my order of preference. I don’t remember all the fancy dishnames, but from left to right we have: truffled mushroom capuccino (YUMMMMM), oysters, crab cake with fiddlehead, seared yellowfin tuna, one that I really don’t remember (and can’t tell from looking at the photo either), and braised short rib ravioli.

Missing from these photos are the SOMA chocolate room, where we had this crazy, warm, spicy chocolate shot (it had cayenne pepper in it), and the incredible martini bar – where I had a martini called the Dill Pickled (pickle purée, white cranberry and a mini gherkin for garnish).  There were also all sorts of canapés being passed around, some very delicious (there was a truffled croquette sort of thing).

Oysters, hanging out in the cool ice sculptured bowl

Another ice sculpture at the martini bar

Super tasty croquembouche in the dessert room

The finishing touch? On our way out, Lisa (the event co-ordinater we’ve been corresponding with) set us on our way with a little take out box of popcorn. You’d be silly to think it was plain or even buttered popcorn. The popcorn was truffled. YOWZAA!!