Best Meal in a Very Long Time

I had the best meal in a very long time this evening. We went to Cafe Levain and tried their Sunday night prix fixe menu. Everything was excellent. Well, it didn't start out so well. Our waitress essentially forgot about us for a good 10-15 minutes. I was ready to walk out...thankfully we didn't! We both ordered the Vegetarian menu once we had the waitress' attention. I also ordered the wine flight.

Everything they served was excellent to the nth power. First we were served a soup that was made up of micro greens, a vegetable called ramp that I had never heard of and it was all pureed. It was so extremely interesting. It was sweet, then spicy, then tart, then...well, I don't know how else to describe it, but it was such an interesting concoction. It was bright green in color - that was a bit disturbing, but once you tasted it....mmmmmm.....

The next course was a fingerling potato salad. It was also quite tasty. It had fresh green beans and from what I can tell now.....quite a bit of garlic. ;) It was so good though. Even the lettuce that is typically very bitter in taste was good.

The main course was the gnocchi. For those of you that know me well, you will be surprised. I was eating straight mushrooms - not small pieces on a pizza, but big pieces of mushroom with nothing else. Of course when I mentioned it to Steve he had to remind me that it was probably cooked in A LOT of butter. Still - delicious!

We ended up having a profiterole with mint chocolate chip ice cream for dessert. Just the right ending for a fabulous meal!

In addition, I had 3 tastings of wine to go with the various courses (minus dessert). Very good wine as well.

The food and the waitress' attention after a rough start made the meal very memorable. By far the best meal I've had in quite awhile.

Thankfully we went for an hour long walk prior to dinner. Probably could have used a similar walk afterward. :)