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Chris(tine)'s EVICTION Dinner!

For Christine's eviction dinner, we chose to have an evening at one of strasbourg's best kept secrets - L'Atilier Du Gout. (only pronounced correctly if you can make a number of strange faces sequentially in the exact order!)

The place is too cool for words. Essentially of an Art on Plate genre, every single plate served was an explosion of flavours! (apart from Christine's starter - lets say there food is 'rich', so not so compatible with ppl who cannot digest dairy and gluten too well : She got a plateful full of thinly sliced raw vegetables served with a very elegant testtube of deliciously herbed and flowered oil :-)) She was much happier with the main course, for which she had ordered a columbo style mutton kebab.

I had grilled squid to start with (it had other miscellaneous sea creatures too, but they were too tiny for me to name or gaze at them - also they were too delicious!) along with some rocket salad. Main course was a fish - 'alose' grilled and served with a garnish of capers and peppers and oil along with a cube (yes, a perfect cube) of herby potatoes mash (lots of coriander). We all shared (a Gewürztraminer and pinot noir at home) and some pinot and a rose in the restaurant. The cherry on top (totally metaphoric) was the dessert: for which I chose the a pie biscuit made out of honey yogurt, rhubarb confit and nuty bread on which rested some mint and ginger icecream. The concoction can only be best described as divine.

The party consisted of Christine, Annelie, Wael, Isabelle, Jill, Nassim and myself. Christine also got a book of her favourite 'a la bee' recipies and a care package from Annelie and I full of lots of anti ageing and stress relief creams along with some rice cakes - christine's favourite time fillers! :-)