Saturday, March 19, 2011

Girl and The Goat - Chicago













































































































































































Bread ($4 each): small round loaves served warm
Fat - liver butter, pomegranate marmalade
Ruby Rye - mustard butter, thousand island dressing

Vegetables
Sauteed green beans - fish sauce, cashews ($9) - group favorite and disappeared within minutes
Chickpea fritters - romesco, hazelnut hummus, goat feta ($11) - yummy little square donuts of chickpeas
Butternut Squash ravioli - mushroom raisin ragout, shroom creme fraiche ($13) - more like leaflets of pasta
Sweet potato gratin - rogue river smokey blue ($12)

Fish
Lamb sausage stuffed calamari - sweet garlic, sweetbread crisp, currant ($15) - very large calamari stuffed with lamb, it would have been easy to finish off a second order
Sauteed cod cheeks - mushrooms, garlic crunch ($16) - generous and tender cheeks
Escargot ravioli - tamarind sauce ($15) - didn't have much flavor

Meat
Braised Beef Tongue - Salsa Verded ($14) - very tender
Grilled Pork Ribs - scallion vinagrette - excellent and tender, the meat fell of the bone and the flavor was slightly sweet, and this was the group's favorite
Grilled Goat T-bones - salsify, sausage sauce ($17) - very mild flavor and tender, tasted like lamb
Grilled Bison Butt - veal sausage, black trumpets ($22) - also very tender and mild, great alternative to beef
Dessert ($8 each):
Bourbon apples - cranberry, miso marcona almond, maple fat gelato - layered in a jar
Bittersweet chocolate - shitake gelato, toffee creme fraiche - typical chocolate cake
Sesame semifreddo - pork fat donuts, sambal pineapple - excellent little fried pillows with a hint of pork flavor
Blood orange sorbet - parsnip pot de creme, pistachio cake, three sisters cornmeal crust - nice flavor
The overall decor was warm although it was a cavernous, industrious space.

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