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!!