Saturday, October 07, 2006

8 Girls, a Birthday and Toqué!

My little sister turned 21 last week. It's amazing how she's catching up to me! We celebrated with friends at the infamous Restaurant Toqué! where I once worked for three years, as most of you know. I hadn't been back to eat in two years and was pleasantly suprised by my warm reception, but not so pleased with the food. Sure it was still good, but, it lacked the 'wow' factor that I remembered. We arrived at 10 PM for dessert and drinks, which was no suprise for the staff, as they know well my love of sweets! Unfortunately, the amazing pastry chefs of yesteryear are long gone and what we get now is just some ho-hum desserts. (miss you Liz, Dana and Hans)
Of course, we still had a blast as only a bunch of girls can. Above is Miranda looking lovely on her birthday.

Bourbon vanilla creme brulé with orange and almond tuile
Rhubarb jelly and poached rhubarb with whipped cream, basil syrup, and strawberry sorbet
Molten Manjari cake with red wine reduction, raspberries

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was still good though....ummm chocolate!

April said...

Wow, great photos and luscious desserts!
Happy Belated Miranda!

Anonymous said...

Mmmmmm I'm wanting more molten chocolate lava cake.

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