Day 45: Ice/Tavern
Our good friends who moved away to Fargo came back for some sunshine (we had 48 hours of it!) We took our buddy Jack to ICE to break him in, as it was his first time ice skating. Jack was a trooper -- he got right back up every time he took a spill, and did not seem to be fazed by getting completely soaked. Christmas eve Mark and I snuck out with another friend visiting from Brooklyn who is a real foodie (she's a producer on the Food Network). We took her to Tavern in Brentwood,in the former Hamburger Hamlet space on San Vicente. It's a lot fancier now. Tavern is a collaboration between chef Susan Goin and Caroline Styne. It is divided up into three rooms: the larder (the casual take-away area), the bar and the atrium that are less casual. My husband wasn't thrilled with the limited menu (we sat in the bar area) but between the regular menu and the bar menu we ordered a bunch of tapas style dishes to share, as well as a few main courses, and we all thoroughly enjoyed dinner. The bacon wrapped dates were decadent and delicious. The shrimp were delicate, cooked perfectly. Lauren ordered gnocci to share, prepared in a rich sort of gravy with tongue (so not anything I would have ever ordered --) well it was delicious. We ordered a syrah from Sonoma (can't remember the name) that I really loved. The crowd was a very mixed bag that night -- a couple came in and sat next to us wearing matching fuzzy santa hats that I would probably be pretty embarrassed to be seen in outside of a second-grade play. Home to power wrap some massive Nerf guns and shields, a football, a few books and assorted boy loot and stick them under the tree. All in all, a great Christmas Eve.
Our good friends who moved away to Fargo came back for some sunshine (we had 48 hours of it!) We took our buddy Jack to ICE to break him in, as it was his first time ice skating. Jack was a trooper -- he got right back up every time he took a spill, and did not seem to be fazed by getting completely soaked. Christmas eve Mark and I snuck out with another friend visiting from Brooklyn who is a real foodie (she's a producer on the Food Network). We took her to Tavern in Brentwood,in the former Hamburger Hamlet space on San Vicente. It's a lot fancier now. Tavern is a collaboration between chef Susan Goin and Caroline Styne. It is divided up into three rooms: the larder (the casual take-away area), the bar and the atrium that are less casual. My husband wasn't thrilled with the limited menu (we sat in the bar area) but between the regular menu and the bar menu we ordered a bunch of tapas style dishes to share, as well as a few main courses, and we all thoroughly enjoyed dinner. The bacon wrapped dates were decadent and delicious. The shrimp were delicate, cooked perfectly. Lauren ordered gnocci to share, prepared in a rich sort of gravy with tongue (so not anything I would have ever ordered --) well it was delicious. We ordered a syrah from Sonoma (can't remember the name) that I really loved. The crowd was a very mixed bag that night -- a couple came in and sat next to us wearing matching fuzzy santa hats that I would probably be pretty embarrassed to be seen in outside of a second-grade play. Home to power wrap some massive Nerf guns and shields, a football, a few books and assorted boy loot and stick them under the tree. All in all, a great Christmas Eve.
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