Currently the time is on fast-forward for us. Last Saturday was 6 months since our wedding. Half a year. Incredible. And what an excuse to go celebrate - winter style, with a bottle of red wine and a good dinner.
The restaurant of choice was Cazador in Dominion Rd - they serve game and Persian-style dishes. The restaurant was recommended by Eugene, my workmate, who seems to go there quite regularly. He stressed the importance of Vishnofka as an appetiser - so we obliged. It turned out to be (in alignment with our expectations) sour cherry liquor, served on ice. Not too sweet and very smooth. What followed was a meat eater feast - Aaron, stop reading now!
For the entree we decided to be adventurous and ordered pheasant livers and rabbit kidneys. Livers - we like. Kidneys - never had them before. I needed convincing but they turned out to be rather tasteless and with a mushroom-like texture. Edible. Served with tomato sauce and some spices, nicely rounded off dish. Couldn’t eat a mains-size of that but entree was manageable - especially one plate for two people.
We both had a slight problem with picking the main dish - too much choice. We were both set on having something from the game menu so that theoretically limited us to one page but there were dishes on other pages beckoning as well. My choice for next visit: chicken in walnuts and pomegranate sauce. There was also pigeon on the menu but as our neighbours breed homing pigeons and the birds spend most of their day on the neighbours’ roof where we can see them in all their white fluffy glory - no way I could eat pigeon. So instead I chose wild pig scotch fillets in mango sauce and Lukas had rabbit in Persian-style sauce with tomatoes and lots of spices. Yummy. We also ordered a side salad and some rice, which turned out to be good idea as the meat was just that: meat in sauce. Obligatory plate swap in the middle of the dinner and we were both impressed by both dishes. The sizes weren’t huge so we still had room for dessert - even after drinking a whole bottle of BYO red wine. Chocolate sounded like a good idea and we decided to share Tartufo - chocolate gelato with rich chocolate sauce center. Very good.
After finishing the dinner and paying the not-too-extravagant bill we rolled outside to wait for Greg, who offered to pick us up after dinner so we wouldn’t have to drive and could drink that wine responsibly. He also drove us to the restaurant - THANK YOU!
Two words of caution about the decor of Cazador: STUFFED ANIMALS. Everywhere. Ducks, pheasants, even DEER! Disconcerting, so I avoided looking around and instead concentrated on talking to my husband of 6 months. Happy half anniversary, baby!
