mulberry Winter Menu tasting 2013
I didn't get a picture of the snack portion of the meal. It was served from a plate with multiple portions on it. You had to grab one off with your hands. Sure, it's a sandwich, and sandwiches are handily eaten, but we didn't have a side or bread plate to set it on. Once you plucked it from the server, you had to finish it to free the hand holding it.
The gentleman to my left was on a date, they were the last to be served. He had mostly been talking to his girfriend, can't blame him for that. He hadn't noticed that we had grabbed our sandwich from the plate. So, when the server extended a plate with two sandwiches on it, he naturally reached to take the plate. He grabbed it, and tugged. The server tightened his grip and tugged back. A brief tug of war with a double sandwich snack prize! It was quite comical and a bit unfortunate. The server repeated what he'd said to a few other people, "I'm sorry, but we're all out of plates". This struck me as odd since it was only the first course and the seating was limited to the amount of tickets sold for the event (25). Anyhow, the sandwich snack was good enough, but the tug of war was more memorable. I'd suggest they order a few more small plates... the number of plates needed to issue a finite amount of people a known amount of items could easily be summed in advance.
All images below are shown in the order served, as from the menu above.
I almost never order risotto. It's almost always crunchy (undercooked). This was no exception. There were six of us at our table. A lady looked at her husband's risotto and exclaimed "WOW! You're so lucky, look at that big slice of truffle you got". One by one, the four other people at the table chimed in, "OH! I have one too". She looked at her dish closer and eventually figured the few small black flecks to be her truffle serving, and she made a frowny face. A similar scene was about to unveil once again.
"What are all those white cubes on yours?", she asked her husband. He used his phone to light the plate. We could all see no less than twenty white cubes along with his kale. A quick menu reference indicated they should be "Roasted Pear". The other five people at our table started to poke and prod our kale, searching for our elusive white cube of roasted pear, we came up empty. I later discovered one... still, this was my favorite savory item served. It was delicious and I don't think I really suffered any loss from my short pear situation. But I'd think Mulberry could do a better job with consistency.
I don't usually order dessert, but I was glad to have this Chocolate chili pie. I've long been a fan of Ancho Chili Pie and this one was perfect. Not overly sweet but still flavorful and decadent.
