I was actually looking for something to clean the BF’s many iced tea pitchers which get stained at the bottom. I also have a decanter from Crate and Barrel that looks like a flower vase and is ALSO bitchingly hard to get perfectly clean. Then I spotted this doo-dad at Target! It was a good $6 investment – a year or two ago good friend Madmojo was cleaning an Ikea wine glass and the fucker shattered around his hand. He had a Frankensteinian, bloody gash across his hand that was…not as amusing as it would have been in if featured in an Evil Dead movie.
Notice how it fits the lip area of the wine glass so perfectly. GET ONE!
The BF took me to Canele in Atwater Villlage for the 31st birthday. The first awesome decision made was bringing this wine with us. Both of us had the beef tenderloin entry and this syrah from Santa Barbara made the entree a total home run. This great food wine is not too tannic, not too peppery, and also went really well with our appetizer – serrano ham, olives, and idiazabal:
The only thing is – olives do NOT go with wine, yet here I am, chomping away on salty, oily, delicious olives. That’s what your water glass is for, I guess.
Here’s our other app, perfectly steamed asparagus sitting on a super buttery piece of crispy bread, topped with a soft boiled egg. Everything drizzled in brown butter. I could eat this for breakfast EVERY DAY:
A few other random notes:
You sit close, VERY close to your neighbors, so either get over it or prepare your conversations ahead of time to be as inoffensive as possible. Corkage is a reasonable $10. None of the desserts sang to me but I had a tough time choosing between the beef tenderloin and the beef bourginon.
Verdict:
I would definitely go back for another dinner but what I am even more curious about is their weekend brunches! Who wants to come with me?
Canele in Atwater Village