Happy Anniversary!

Our Anniversary dinner was at Marcel's. It's a very lovely, French Belgian restaurant that we had not been to before, but had heard rave reviews. We splurged on the 7-course tasting menu. This time, there was no spoon confusion!

They have a pre-theater menu, which includes 3-courses and will be perfect when we are on the way to the Kennedy Center.

The "amuse-bouche" was a small demitasse cup of a velvety corn chowder soup.

• lobster bisque en croute, lobster salad
• pan seared la belle farm foie gras served with toasted bread
• Marcel's boudin blanc, red wine essence (probably our favorite)
• pan seared sea bass with a light sauce
• Australian venison, sauteed spinach and pureed root vegetable; Brian had bison, potato
• cheese course described like this (brillat savarin, candied walnuts, honey humoldt fog, roasted apricot & vanilla mimolette, medjool date epoisses, quince, marcona almonds)
• hazelnut souffle with a chocolate sauce and pistachio ice cream; Brian had a triple chocolate creation (both were yummy!)

A small plate of five different sweets and a coffee topped the evening

Our dessert plates had a beautiful scroll of Happy 11th Anniversary written in chocolate. It was a real treat.