Girl and The Goat

  

Where to celebrate our anniversary? That is the question that I was thinking about 2 months ago. We aren’t one of those couples that like to go to the same restaurant every year for our wedding anniversary (not that there is anything wrong with that—at all). It’s just that Chris and I love experiencing new flavors at new (to us) restaurants. For our first year, Chris surprised me with a dinner at Kiki’s Bistro. I say surprised because we were operating on only one income, we had massive student loans, and I was incurring even more student loans so eating out generally meant scoping out the various restaurant/bar specials, always going BYOB and always splitting an appetizer and entre. So this was a splurge for us. We still scope out specials and we absolutely love BYOB’s but things have changed a little since then. We can each now order our own entre ---although we still split it!

This year, I didn’t really have to put much thought in the restaurant. Girl and the Goat was the obvious choice for us. (Good thing I thought about the restaurant early because it took us this long to get reservations for 5:15 on a SUNDAY.) We watched and rooted for our hometown favorite –Chef Stephanie Izard—while she was on Top Chef and were eager to give her food a taste. From the minute I stepped foot in the restaurant I had a good feeling. The look was kind of eclectic with a modern, industry feel to it. Very understated and simple. And, most importantly, the food lived up the hype and our expectations. The food is definitely the focus. Every dish we had was incredible!! My only criticism is the over priced drinks. $15 for a glass wine or caraffe of French Press coffee is steep in my opinion.

Our Dinner:

•  roasted cauliflower . pickled peppers . pine nuts . mint*
• hiramasa crudo. crisp pork belly. aji aioli. Caperberries
• goat, pork and veal sugo . pappardelle . rosemary . cape goose berries
• wood oven roasted pig face . sunny side egg . tamarind . cilantro . potato stix
• lamb sausage stuffed calamari . sweet garlic . sweetbread crisp . currant saor
• squish, squash bread with quince and oil

 *The star of the night…surprising, huh!  YUM!