Friends with a Friend

 The great thing about having visitors is that you get to do things you never would.

There's a restaurant two blocks down the street that I pass at least twice a day, if not more. 

Ironically, it's called Friends.

Friends is a fancy restaurant.

Luckily I had a friend coming to visit me that happens to enjoy my love of food.

Friends also had a coupon for a fancy dinner.

A truffle dinner.

A truffle degustation.

So my friend and I put on our fancy dresses for a fancy dinner at Friends.

Truffles are quite trendy now. They also happen to grow in Western Australia (these were from Manjimup to be exact) and it's truffle season. I like chocolate truffles,  but have never had the fungus truffle. Let alone five courses infused by truffles. It started with the fancy waiter bringing out a truffle in his white gloved hand to let us sniff the truffle.

And since I didn't take a picture of the whole menu, I will have to describe them with my not so MasterChef interpretations.

First Course: White bean and field mushroom soup with black truffle. It was so creamy that the two soups stayed separate to make a yin yang in the bowl. And said white gloved man came back to shave some truffle onto out soup.

 

Second course: Cold chicken meatloaf with some crunchy pickled carrots. With some truffle sauce strewn across the plate.

 

Third Course: Slow aged beef with a wine reduction, some pureed peas, orange (maybe carrot?) something and beets, cauliflower and some delicious fancy scalloped potatoes.

Fourth Course: Creamy brie cheese (because who doesn't like cheese) with a single dried apricot a couple walnuts and some other random stuff. Negative was the brie was a truffle sandwich. But the part of the cheese that didn't have truffle tasted good.

Fifth Course: A creamy mousey thing and truffle ice cream. Yum.

And the best part about it was getting to share it with my Friend.