Saturday, June 20, 2009

Utter Perversity, 2

Eastside Road, Healdsburg, June 20, 2009—

A QUARTER MELON and a peach for lunch. Dinner was in two courses: at home, appetizers: bread, oil, and salt; a little focaccia; some goat cheese; carrots and radishes. Then, after an absolutely wonderful performance of three Chekhov one-act plays at Santa Rosa's Imaginists Theater Collective, dinner proper.
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photo: Richard Burg

Odyssey opened in nearby WIndsor two years ago or so, and we'd not managed to get there until tonight — three weeks before it's closing its doors. We've missed something: the cooking is good, the ingredients correct. Perhaps my entree wasn't quite correct, but it sure was good, though eccentric: a hamburger flavored with black truffle oil, layered between shortribs and a thick slice of fois gras, with a bit of sirloin involved somehow, and french-fries on the side. What the hell.
Sangiovese, Ramazzotti (Sonoma county), 2007
  • Odyssey, 426 Emily Rose circle, Windsor; tel. 707.836.7600

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