A Hen Night

Thurday night, and it’s Girls Only as we say farewell to the single life of one of our friends. We started the night of fun and frolics with a meal at Sage, at Robertson Walk.

Sage is a small (30 covers only) and intimate, tranquil restaurant, so I’m not sure they knew what had hit them when 12 cowgirls joined them for the evening, Stetsons, water pistols, ‘Yee-has’ and all. But they certainly coped with us admirably – especially Rowan the waiter, who was subjected to a kiss from yours truly as part of the hen night challenges.

We were offered a set menu of three courses, with choices at each course, all of which were inventive and interesting. I kicked off with the Escargot & Prawns – A risotto of burgundy escargot and tiger prawns flambéed with pastis, parmesan crusted poached egg and Italian parsley foam.

This was really pretty good, although I confess the flavour of the Escargot became a little much for me by the end, as it was rather a large portion, and I’m used to those slippery little suckers being doused in garlic butter when I’ve ever had them before.

For the main course, I opted for the Beef Cheek – Caramelized Black Angus beef cheek topped with duxelle mushrooms and melted foie gras mousse, puree of butternut squash and reduction of its own braising jus.

The beef here was gorgeous, really melt in your mouth and the accompaniments were also extremely tasty, especially the butternut squash. My only complaint? The size of the accompaniments! There was approximately a teaspoon of the squash and four teaspoons of vegetables…

I finished off with the Crème Brulée – a Lavender crème brulée with blood orange sorbet on redcurrant jelly and Navel orange meringue. A fine end to a fine meal.

So from there it was on to Karaoke… where thankfully we had a room to ourselves… with no innocent bystanders to get caught in the water pistol crossfire…


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