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I had a great brunch today!

4 years ago

last modified: 4 years ago

Tom's SIL and I met for brunch today. We met at a longtime favourite restaurant of mine; 45 min. from her home and 1:45 from mine.

It was a perfect day for a drive, sunroof open, tunes on and anticipating a great meal.

The restaurant is a converted schoolhouse from years ago. My family used to go for Mother's Day back in the late 80s/early 90s. Tom and I went once and we were planning to go the following year for our 'anniversary' (date we met) but life had other ideas.

Table in front of the fireplace, (hah, the exact same table T and I were seated). This is Christie. Her husband, Tom's brother died in Feb or March.

I love the table setting, large folded nappies, basket of warm biscuits and sweet potato muffins

I knew I wanted the French onion soup........luckily I have a trucker's appetite!

Then the salad

And finally the main. Filet of sole with lobster over wild rice blend and Newberg sauce.

Don't worry, I brought half of it home!!!

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Comments (8)

plllog
4 years ago
Awesome! Nice to keep in touch with your SIL even if you have to drive a ways.
chloebud
4 years ago
What a great day! Such a charming place and the food looks wonderful. DH would drive a lot of miles for that bowl of FOS!
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petalique
4 years ago
Jasdip, how nice that you and SIL could meet up at such fine restaurant. Your meal looks devine.
neely
4 years ago
Looks like a lovely place and the food seems delicious. Sounds like a good drive as well.
annie1992
4 years ago
Yum, it all looks delicious. I'm happy you and SIL can get together. I was remarking recently that when I was a kid a 50 mile drive was a huge deal, it only happened for very special occasions. Now kids will drive 75 miles for dinner and a movie, LOL.

I'm happy you could both make the drive and enjoy a place with wonderful memories and good food, plus good company!

Annie
l pinkmountain
4 years ago
OMG just the kind of place I would LOVE. When I worked for Slippery Rock University they was an old schoolhouse turned into a restaurant just outside of town. I had many happy special occasion meals there. They made an apple cake with that cake gravy stuff that was wonderful. I so much prefer restaurants in old buildings with character, (and decent acousitc/soundproofing) to newer jarringly noisy ones, no matter how nice. There is a fancy steakhouse two towns over that a lot of folks go to for special occasions but it is on my "so not worth it" list. I'd prefer the roadhouse from the 1800's down the road. It is very similar to the place you posted, except brick. We also have a breakfast and lunch place in an old mansion in our town that I like. Just don't go there right now due to not wanting to risk covid. That's the irony, my favorite restaurants have good food AND ambience and these days we just do takeout. The food tastes better with nice ambiance, and at my house, mediocre takeout suffers from the contrast with home made.
WalnutCreek Zone 7b/8a
4 years ago
What a nice thing for you two SsIL. Your meal is mouthwatering.
Lulu
4 years ago
That looks fabulous! Sorry to take away from your post, but I tried to find the recipe for the fish, it looks so good! The only one I found calls for 1/2 gal of heavy cream and 1 1/2 cups madeira wine as well as other ingredients as well as the lobster. That sounds like a lot of liquid and I think the lobster would be like rubber after reducing it.

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