Girl & the Goat

Hello and wow. I've just come back from foodie nirvana aka Steph Izard's G&tG...as if you haven't heard of it. Basically, I wasn't sure if it would live up to the hype, but I'm happy to report that it definitely definitely did. Before I get down to business, poor Navid on 90210 and oh my god Teddy needs to stop doing gay bar drive-bys! I'm loling here. OK, so we started off with two of the three homemade breads. We got the squish squash with came with pecan brown butter and then this like brown sugar oil. We also got the pretzel bread which I think was my favorite thing we had all night it had big pieces of salt on top and came with dijon mustard butter and a thousand island sauce on the side. Afuckingmazing. genius with the mustard butter and I ate the whole loaf. Then we got chickpea fritters with romesco, hazelnut hummus, sesame, and goat feta. They were square and tasted like polenta and hummus combined and the feta added this creamy element that I liked, even though I'm not into cheese. They also had toasted chickpeas as a garnish that were the right textural compliment. We got the roasted cauliflower with pickled peppers which was amazing. Everyone told me to order the cauliflower, and in general I wouldn't, but I was not disappointed. Next was the squash ravioli with mushroom raisin ragu which was awesome. The raviolo were sweet, but the mushroom ragu which had tons of different mushrooms in it was sweet and hearty and really really good. Like no wonder that she won top chef. She's so good at mixing all these elements without it seeming cluttered. Ugh I wanted a gay kiss in 90210. So the mix of elements brings me to the red fish, with freeze dried black beans, cubed butternut squash, and hen of woods mushrooms. The black beans were perfect with the squash and the fish was perfectly cooked. Love love loved it. You can most likely refer to gingerfoodie's facebook or blog...she took some photos. Abby has acquired some rotten bananas and that means bananananana bread tomorrow. wooohoo. I'm in a slight food coma right now and I definitely want to go back to girl and the goat as soon as I can....so most likely in February because they're looking pretttty booked. Good for Stephanie she was always the best top chef winner and now I can say that with certainty. Chuck Bass just gets sexier by the episode, doesn't he?

xx,

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