Burgundy Room Dublin

July 22nd, 2007

My sister came into town for the Yonder show, and we had a kick ass time all weekend long. The fun started on Friday, with dinner at The Burgundy Room in Dublin. I’ve visited the Short North location, and found that Dublin has a totally different feel. A splash of elegance, where the SN location has cool. Columbus Foodie blogged about The Burgundy Breakfast, which was my impetus to go. We started with a real nice Rose Prosecco, which I can’t find on their wine list at the moment. Dry, but with those great fruit tones that I dig in a rose wine. It went great with the first round of Tapas we ordered. Sister ordered a local butter lettuce salad with goat cheese, smoked tomatoes, pecans and blueberries. The smoked tomatoes were fantastic, and offset the general sweetness of the salad, making it feel rich and powerful, rather than oversweet. T had the roasted sweet corn bisque, which was served just over room temperature. I’m not sure if that was intentional or not, but on a hot day, it hit the spot. Some candied roasted tomatoes topped it off. I has a shrimp cocktail, which was meh. The whole time we were eating, a family of ducks gathered at our table. They would eat bread right from your hand, and were cute enough to convince me not to order the duck confit tortellini (though I sooooooooo wanted to!). See examples here:

Round two began with a mixed seafood ceviche. Had I known half raw salmon was coming my way, I would have passed. Sis got crab cakes, served with a wonderful mustard sauce, and a 90/10 crab-to-filler ratio, which is about perfect. T received a gloriously rich smoked chicken ravioli dish with capers and prosciutto. After a bottle of Burgundian Sauvignon Blanc, we hit dessert. I made a mistake and asked our server, who seemed pretty new to the whole “wine bar” thing, to let us finish our bottle before bringing dessert. My intention was to time this right so we could get a bottle of dessert wine, but by the time our server brought our order, the bottle had been gone for 20 minutes, and I had gotten itchy to get out of there. Eventually, we were brought our 2 dessert choices, a trio of house made ice creams, and the Burgundy Breakfast. All the ice creams were good, the chocolate mint being my favorite. But nothing compared to my fresh belgain waffle with bourbon maple syrup and bacon ice cream. Yep, bacon. And if you share my affinity for all things porky, you’ll get this dish straight away.  It was breakfast, dinner and dessert in one.  Yum!  bit rich for everyday, but it was a wonderfully excecuted dish, and a perfect end to the meal.  We headed back to Clintonville, picked up a few more bottles of vin at the store and sat around the firepit for the rest of the evening.  Yay!

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