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Haggises

Haggises

Ela, Philadelphia
Tasting Menu:
Fluke tartare with toasted sesame oil, a little wasabe and a sweet fig(?) sauce in places.
Whipped Foie gras, watercress, blueberries.
Divers scallops cut into long noodle shapes with dried fried onions and a thai-ish peanut sauce and sliced papaya.
Skirt steak with sous vide carrots and a pesto risotto
Chocolate ganache with white chocolate cream, smoked strawberries and chopped nuts.

Truly amazing, excellent (maybe slightly rushed) service, writing it down now before the Le fin de Monde beer, Miller High Life, Pinot noir and Talisker erase the memory :)
 
Haggises

Haggises

All the other beers on the menu were microbrews and I didn't want that hoppy taste to overpower the food.
Besides...tis the Champagne Of Beers. :001_tt2:
 
Haggises

Haggises

Yes.
Corner of 3rd and Bainbridge.

Highly recommended. Only proble was it was a touch loud, as many restaurants seem to be these days.
 
Haggises

Haggises

One year later, had my best meal since the one at Ela.

Carmine's Act Two, Narberth PA

First Course:
Sweet potato smoked sausage bisque
Second Course:
Blackened filet mignon topped with crawfish demi-glace over smoked Andouille mashed potatoes
and
Blackened shrimp Creole over smoked Gouda grits
Third Course:
Ice cream and waffles topped with praline sauce

And it all tasted even better than it sounds. Soup was the most flavorful I've ever had.
Steak was served blue, and was the tastiest filet I've had. Shrimp n grits disappeared to a roving SWMBO fork, but were tasty.
Desert was OK, but a bread and butter pudding was excellent.
If you're in the area, go to this place!
 
BSAGuy

BSAGuy

Both places sound great. I'm 55 and only old guys like me remember the Miller jingle...Miller High Life...The Champagne of Bottled Beer."


 
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mretzloff

mretzloff

I have never been to Carmine's Act Two, but I do know where Narberth is. Right on the way from Villanova to Center City with the Paoli-Thorndale Line.
 
The Knize

The Knize

If this is a best meals I had recently thread, my best was at 5 Bistro in St. Louis.

5 Bistro holds itself out as a sort of locally sourced food restaurant. it is that, but it is much more in my opinion--very much a super high quality, unusual, arguably "fancy" food, nice atmosphere, great service place. Clearly they have a gifted chef(s) and a highly skilled wine buyer and mixologist.

Things like a charcuterie with everything made on premises, including some more unusual things, like a cured beef tongue. Perhaps the best diver scallops I have even had. A berry infused panna cotta to die for. Nice wines I had not seen elsewhere and someone there who could talk to you about them. Specialty mixed drinks with many "home made" ingredients that were outstanding and palette expanding.

Anything that came close would have been easily twice as much or more in the DC area.
 
Haggises

Haggises

Haggises said:
One year later, had my best meal since the one at Ela.

Carmine's Act Two, Narberth PA

First Course:
Sweet potato smoked sausage bisque
Second Course:
Blackened filet mignon topped with crawfish demi-glace over smoked Andouille mashed potatoes
and
Blackened shrimp Creole over smoked Gouda grits
Third Course:
Ice cream and waffles topped with praline sauce

And it all tasted even better than it sounds. Soup was the most flavorful I've ever had.
Steak was served blue, and was the tastiest filet I've had. Shrimp n grits disappeared to a roving SWMBO fork, but were tasty.
Desert was OK, but a bread and butter pudding was excellent.
If you're in the area, go to this place!
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Went back tonight, almost had the same thing.
Strayed to Barbecue Shrimp and Cheddar Grits followed by Blackened Grouper over Crawfish Jambalaya.

The only minor complaint was that the Jambalaya overpowered the taste of the fish, but the fish was so perfect that it just about got away with it.
By far my favorite restaurant in the Philly area.
 
Haggises

Haggises

The Knize said:
If this is a best meals I had recently thread, my best was at 5 Bistro in St. Louis.

5 Bistro holds itself out as a sort of locally sourced food restaurant. it is that, but it is much more in my opinion--very much a super high quality, unusual, arguably "fancy" food, nice atmosphere, great service place. Clearly they have a gifted chef(s) and a highly skilled wine buyer and mixologist.

Things like a charcuterie with everything made on premises, including some more unusual things, like a cured beef tongue. Perhaps the best diver scallops I have even had. A berry infused panna cotta to die for. Nice wines I had not seen elsewhere and someone there who could talk to you about them. Specialty mixed drinks with many "home made" ingredients that were outstanding and palette expanding.

Anything that came close would have been easily twice as much or more in the DC area.
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Sounds like a great place. Sorry to have missed this post first time around.
 
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