Wild Honey

Wild Honey is Arbutus's sister restaurant, and this time we learned to do the pre-theatre menu to give us ample time to enjoy the meal and make the theatre on time. So we had dinner on Friday, and with tickets for Madame de Sade on Saturday. The pre-theatre menu was also very affordable at 18.95 for three courses, though my mom decided to spring for the regular menu. In general the food was tasty (the butter was particularly good), but it did feel a bit heavier than the other restaurants. This might be because I ate most of my mom's appetizer and her dessert, but it left me feeling a little heavier than the other guys.

My mom's organic belly of pork, English snails, parsley and garlic, was great, especially the snails and the garlic cloves, which I love.
My thinly sliced pork with poached egg vinaigrette was tasty, but awfully familiar... (see Arbutus). It was not as good as the sliced lamb from Arbutus, but still tasty.
I did the slow cooked Elwy valley lamb breast, which I thought was surprisingly fatty. It kind of had the texture of the like end of the shwarma at a street stand in Istanbul, which they shred up and serve to American tourists. This might have contributed to the heaviness. It was no Foliage lamb neck, but the vegetables on the side were really good.

My mom's grilled sea bass, leeks, and boulangere potatoes was not bad. The potatoes were especially good, I thought. The sea bass skin was interestingly anisey, but the taste I had was pretty good.

My 'Floating Island' pink pralines was the highlight of my meal. Delicious.My mom had a Sicilian lemon tart, which was also very good.

Arbutus

I heard about the extraordinarily affordable three course pre-theatre (<- look, that's me being British again) menu at Arbutus and Wild Honey for less than a twenty. A word of warning though. Pre-theatre implies a pre-dinner theatre. After rushing through our 6pm dinner at Arbutus and then jogging to Carousel for a 7:30 curtain, we decided our pre-theatre meals should take place a day before the actual show, which is what we did for Wild Honey. They were super nice about being speedy for us, but it just wasn't as relaxing and food-enjoyable as it should have been. I don't even remember what the food was, since I believe I said, "Just give us one of each... fast."

To start, some thinly sliced lamb with some vinaigrette. Warm, and really nice. This was probably the highlight of my meal.
I can't remember what the entree was, though I remember eating it...The dessert was crushed apples and vanilla ice cream or St. Nectaire cheese.
Three Michelin-starred courses for 17.50 - you can't really beat it.