Wedding Day Receptions Rock!!!

I had the pleasure of attending my best friends daughters wedding, It's amazing seeing them grow up and being @ her wedding was such a beautiful experience.

Cherish your children and every moment you have with them because one day their all grown up.

 

 

 

The Spaniard

Sante Wine Bar, Asheville NC

Serving lunch and dinner, Santé Wine Bar and Tap Room is a European style wine bar featuring wines by the glass and bottle with flights and light fare including cheese boards, dips, salads and sweets.  Wine-lovers at Santé were recently treated to a cutting-edge concept in winemaking: wine from a keg.  Santé’s keg system is the first in the state to feature twelve taps solely dedicated to wine, and it’s an idea whose time has come.

 

This is a great place to take a break from all the walking around and simple relax and get a awesome glass of wine. I was very excited to try the tap wines and see just how good they could be. My lady had the Sainsbury Rose and I had the King's Estate Acrobat Pinot Noir, both right from the tap and tasted fresh, very refreshing and crisp.

 

Call me old fashion but I feel they need to work on displaying the wines better. I truly enjoyed the wines from the tap but it was missing the beauty of displaying the wines and showing the bottles. When you are just looking directly @ a tap you seem to loose the romance that one builds up with drinking wine. I love the concept but just feel we need to respect the wines more and do a better job displaying them. I listed their web site for your review.

 

 

www.santewinebar.com

 

The Spaniard

French Broad Chocolates, Asheville NC

We made a list of location we needed to visit during our trip to Asheville.

The French broad was one of those locations. Below is the web site for you to explore.

The Lounge is the only place where you can experience our complete selection of desserts including our signature hot sipping chocolates, artisan cheese plate, cakes and more.



liquid truffles
our signature opulent, ganache-based hot sipping chocolate, the likes of which you’ll find in Europe’s finest chocolate shops.
hot chocolate
rich and chocolatey, yet lighter bodied than the liquid truffle.

I had the hot chocolate, truly the best hot beverage I've ever had.

www.frenchbroadchocolates.com

The Spaniard

The Gourmet Chip Company, Asheville NC

Walking through the town of Asheville NC we came upon the "The Gourmet Chip Co."

Great little joint serving freshly made gourmet chips and fried in 100% all natural canola oil.

You even have a choice of regular potato or sweet potato. They offer seven different kinds of gourmet chips to select from.   

 

They also offer Panini's and sandwiches, gift baskets and shipping. I have commend them, simply concept, fresh ingredients & great location. They are so good that 21 other restaurants in the town of Asheville offer their chips on their menus. I've attached their web site below for you to review. They can ship the chips right to your house....  

 

www.gourmetchipcompany.com

 

The Spaniard

So true....

A Chef needs to taste EVERYTHING.....

 

The Spaniard

Lunch was great...

No matter what your having you can't go wrong if you

drink the wines below......

 

 

 The Spaniard

A Table @ Le Cirque

Where it all began...

 

Working his way on a transatlantic cruise liner, Sirio Maccioni dazzled New York with his charm and acumen for hospitality. Working at the famed Colony Club as a maitre d’hotel in the late 1960s, Sirio developed his first taste for the New York restaurant business. Then in 1974, Sirio opened what was destined to become a New York landmark – Le Cirque, which literally translates as “the circus” in French, at the Mayfair Hotel. In 1997, Le Cirque outgrew its original location and relocated to a larger space in the New York Palace Hotel under the name Le Cirque 2000. By 2004, Le Cirque was an established New York City landmark and decided to move to the prestigious Bloomberg Building on East 58th Street and finally opened its doors in May of 2006.

I been reading his books, A table at Le Cirque & Recipes & Sirio: The Story of my Life & Le Cirque. I highly recommend both books and I'm currently cooking my way through the Table @ le cirque book.

I've listed some menu items below just just to provide you with a bit of "Foodie Porn" for now.....

Lobster Salad "Le Cirque", Foie Gras Ravioli, Paupiette of Black Bass, Creamy Scrambled Eggs with Caviar, Lobster Risotto, Flounder " Le Cirque ", Dover Sole, Tuscan Brick Pressed Chicken, Whole Roasted Black Truffle Chicken, Trio De Luxe smoked salmon, foie gras, and caviar, Caviar and Oysters from east & west‍, Rock shrimp fritters ratatouille, herb butter, Seared Foie Gras & Wild Burgundy Escargots.....and so many more.         I've had pleasure of dining @ Le Bernadin and to date it's the best dining experience I've ever had. Some people set up Christmas clubs to be able to buy presents, I set mine up to be able to dine in such great establishments like Le Cirque......I'll be calling them to make a reservation in January until then I will continue reading and cooking my way through the Le Cirque book and loving every minute of it.     The Spaniard                ‍