Jack and I attended the opera “The Cunning Little Vixen” put on by the Cleveland Orchestra at Severence Hall last week – well actually two weeks ago – I’m a bit behind here. It is a Czech opera about the lives of foxes in the forest. Very deep. This original Cleveland Production was multi sensory in that there were huge screens behind the full orchestra with beautiful, stylized animation of the story. Live actors/singers also were on a small stage in front at times and most bizarely occasionally poked their heads through the screen in holes that were like trap doors. Truly crazy but I thought it was beautiful. I loved it. It received great reviews , also one from NPR, and even The New York Times. The Cleveland Orchestra is amazing.
Friday was a ridiculously long stressful day at work…. and my birthday to top it off. The only thing that got me through was knowing that Courtney and I were going to L’Albatros in the evening. We were going to go to the Cleveland Botanical Gardens before dinner to have a cocktail and view the orchid show but I was stuck on a conference call and didn’t get out of the hospital until six.
Courtney, Jack, Jenni and I went to the Greenhouse Tavern on E.4th last night before going to a concert at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This is the third time we have been here and again had a great meal. We sat outside as it was a beautiful evening and it’s always fun to watch the people walking around E. 4th. We split three appetizers: chicken wings, local green beans with tomatoes and whipped feta and a fresh peach that came with an agradolce sauce and bacon. They were all superb. We always have the wings and they are the best, most unique wings anywhere. The peach was also perfect and a fun new combination. For seconds I had a small plate of pasta carbonara with fresh corn, Courtney had a salad of endive and blue cheese, Jack had a strip steak with pomme frites and Jenni had a pasta called roasted pepper cacciatore. Again, all were excellent but Jenni’s pasta won the prize for sure. Perfect little pasta nuggets, not sure what the shape was called, with tomotaoes, peppers, fennell and other stuff. MMMM.
Grace texted me Friday afternoon at work and said she was looking at my blog and thought I needed a new update and would be happy to go out to eat with us so I can post something. Sneaky. It doesn’t take much to talk us into going out so we decided to head out to Bar Cento on West 25th when we got home from work. Grace wanted to go there for her birthday back in March but we never made it. We went early as it was Friday night and got a table right away. It actually wasn’t crowded at all. The Market Garden Brewery across the street was packed though. We ended up ordering a bunch of different things and sharing. We had some warm olives, mussels, frites, a large plate of different meats, cheeses and pickles and two pizzas. Quite the smorgasbord. We had a pizza blanco, just oil, and cheese, and an olive pizza that we have had before here and is really good. The mussels were good and buttery and the fries were great as always with three different types of mayonnaise to dip in. The meat platter had a nice selection with a little bit of everything. I tried goose liver for the first time so am proud of myself. I liked it too. We ate pretty much everything. Just brought home some of the pizza and some of the meat that was left over.
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