Instant Restaurant Review: Aquavit

[serinde]

Met M & K and sundry others for lunch at Aquavit (requires Flash). In addition to haute cuisine a la Sweden, they make their own flavor-infused aquavits, which we had a round of before lunch: raspberry-lime-ginger (mine), grapefruit-lemongrass, orange blossom-lychee, pineapple-basil, and pear-vanilla-black pepper (which latter was, I think, the winner, though others may disagree).

My lunch: herring sampler (OMFG good), salsify noodles in saffron-coconut broth (funky, but nice), and mint-chocolate mousse with blood orange sauce (lovely). We freely traded bites around the table, and nothing I tasted was less than really good; the seared scallops were particularly stand-out, as was the venison and dumplings, but my hands-down favorite was the Beef Rydborg.

Would eat there again and again, if I was made of money.

Comments

[nancaurelia.livejournal.com]

Maybe they'll be on the list for restaurant week?

[sedai.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you didn't overindulge like I did. When eating with M&K I go totally overboard and regret it the next day...

I can't imagine mint-chocolate with orange flavor, but I bet it was awesome.

I'm feeling pretty overindulged myself....

[(Anonymous)]

Well, thanks you all for coming out at one time or another. Nick is heading off tommorrow, and in the last week we went to:
Craft (with Sedai), Le Bernadin, Per Se, Artisinal, Veritas, Chili+Chocolate, The Islands, Saul, Aquavit. We had a lot of fun and went out with a great cross section of our friends, but...brown rice for the next month!

-M

Re: I'm feeling pretty overindulged myself....

[sedai.livejournal.com]

Wow! Sounds absolutely awesome -- both the friends and the food.

Oh, and, despite my belly-aching from this last trip, I'm always up for more when you get off that brown rice diet. :)

[khrister.livejournal.com]

Sounds delicious. To pick a nit, it's "Beef Rydberg", pretty traditional Swedish dish that one.