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| - Love going to UYE event and thanks for Elaine organizing that at Mezzetta Cafe Restaurant! More people More power! These are the dishes I able to have a taste of:
Sharing:
*Tahina - A rich purée of sesame seeds, parsley and garlic - nice and refrefreshing but flavours overpowered by all the other tapas we ordered!
*Houmous - puree of chick peas with tahina and lemon, and a secret blend of spices - A OK with the pita bread
*Eggplant Garlic A bold puree of flame-roasted eggplant, garlic, dill, mint, and vinegar
*Fried Yams - Crispy deep-fried yam chips, dressed with fried onion shavings - Yam! Yum! Giulana witnessed me ate the whole order by myself!
*Potatoe Sambousak - Potato and onion puree wrapped in puff pastry, three pieces dressed with mezziki - brownish looking.. too bad those are not mini chocolate cakes.. dry and uninspiring!
*Exotic Green Beans - Crisp-fried green beans, shaved onion, dill and garlic, dressed spicy hot - not spicy hot at all! But the beans were cooked well, crunchy and fresh! My fave of the night!
*Mushrooms - Tender sautéed button mushrooms served in a garlic vinaigrette - standard, ok but not too exciting!
Not Sharing: (But I made them share with me)
*Kofta - spiced minced beef balls served in a rich tomatoe sauce - Not bad, but not really outstanding..
*Dream Sausage - Flame-grilled beef-lamb sausage, spiced with herbed hot sauce (Stole from Tony F) MEH.. too lamby!
*Fish Shish - Tasty, marinated marlin or swordfish, flame-grilled, 2 skewers (Stole from Giulana B) - GREAT! light and refreshing with a hint of lemon
*Lamb Shish - Savoury chunks of marinated lamb leg, flame-grilled, 2 skewers (Stole from Tony F) - Surprised that I like it! Rich flavour without lamby taste
*Vine Leaves - Herbed minced beef and spiced Basmati rice wrapped in vine leaves and dressed with garlic yogourt and dill (Stole from Giulana) - hey I have no idea I should eat the leaves.. Chinese don't eat the leaves we used that as a wrapping!
*Chicken Shish - Delicate, juicy marinated chicken breast, flame-grilled - A-OK, but not really memorable!
I have a really enjoyable meal... the bills come out to be $15 per person with taxes and tips. I think I don't mind going on a Toonie Tuesday as a value oriented person that will be the way to go!!
*Special thanks for Tony F and Giulana for letting me try their food.. And I hope they will still sit next to me next time when we eating out together!
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