April 26, 2008

• Nine-Ten

  I had lunch with a friend today at Nine-Ten in La Jolla. The restaurant is inside the Grand Colonial hotel, and we sat at the terrace. It was a nice day, so I snapped some pictures.

  

  We each ordered the three-course lunch for $24.

  Nine-Ten serves California cuisine. My appetizer was a salad from La Milpa, a local farm.

  

  Kai started with a soup made from pureed eggplant and... some other vegetable. He said it was very good.

  

  My main course was an Angus hanger steak, medium rare, with sauteed chanterelle mushrooms, pancetta, dried tomatoes, okra, potato gnocchi, with a red wine reduction.

  I had never had pancetta before. It's like bacon. There's a piece in the bottom pile. It's the white cube at the upper right.

  

  Kai had a hamburger with sauteed mushrooms and garlic aioli.

  

  You can't have a hamburger without pommes frites.

  

  For dessert, I had the half-baked chocolate cake with caramel sauce and whipped cream. It was deliciously gooey inside.

  

  Kai's dessert was the hazelnut and coffee ice cream sundae with cacao nib blondies.

  

  Now I'm well-fed and at home. Time for a nap!

  • 7:54 pm
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