Gastronomical adventures
One of the few notable restaurants we've visited lately...
First, the SALT tasting room. If you love cheese, and you love wine, you will love Salt. Located in Gastown's historic Blood Alley, it's hidden in the middle of a socioe-conomical dichotomy of sorts that is the Vancouver downtown east side. The reason I say this is that it is a mixed neighbourhood of drugs, million dollar lofts, halfway houses, homeless people and restaurants such as Salt.
Anyways, enough of the commentary... back to the food. SALT is an interesting small plates restaurant that focuses on cheese, wine and chatucherie goods. We were here for Dine Out Vancouver so had a great tasting menu of a 3 course meal for $25. We had the Roast Tomato & Smoked Paprika Soup, the Artisan Cheese plate and I had the Dark Chocolate Mousse w/ Caramel & Raspberry Jam for dessert while my partner had the Trifle with Seasonal Fruit & Sherry-Soaked Sponge Cake. YUM. The cheese we had were a P.E.I Avonlea Cheddar with a side of Cornichons, a UK Stichelton Blue with a balsamic reduction, and a Quebec Chevre (goat cheese) with olives. My favourite, and I was surprised that it was a favourite, was the blue cheese... since I've always found blue cheese to be very overpowering. But this blue cheese was delicious. We paired our meal with a flight of BC wines.. a Quail's gate Chemin Blanc to start with the soup.. a Cedar Creek Pinot Noir with the cheese, and a Quail's gate Late Harvest optima with our dessert. My tastebuds were quite deliriously happy by the end of the night :)
More exciting restaurants later..
Anyways, enough of the commentary... back to the food. SALT is an interesting small plates restaurant that focuses on cheese, wine and chatucherie goods. We were here for Dine Out Vancouver so had a great tasting menu of a 3 course meal for $25. We had the Roast Tomato & Smoked Paprika Soup, the Artisan Cheese plate and I had the Dark Chocolate Mousse w/ Caramel & Raspberry Jam for dessert while my partner had the Trifle with Seasonal Fruit & Sherry-Soaked Sponge Cake. YUM. The cheese we had were a P.E.I Avonlea Cheddar with a side of Cornichons, a UK Stichelton Blue with a balsamic reduction, and a Quebec Chevre (goat cheese) with olives. My favourite, and I was surprised that it was a favourite, was the blue cheese... since I've always found blue cheese to be very overpowering. But this blue cheese was delicious. We paired our meal with a flight of BC wines.. a Quail's gate Chemin Blanc to start with the soup.. a Cedar Creek Pinot Noir with the cheese, and a Quail's gate Late Harvest optima with our dessert. My tastebuds were quite deliriously happy by the end of the night :)
More exciting restaurants later..
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I've been trying out a lot more restaurants in honor of dine LA too. I've had incredible meals at Table 8 and Cobras