The Last Bite

This evening, Giggles and Stamps treated me to a birthday dinner at Market Table at Carmine and Bleecker.  It was cool and rainy outside, but inside was cozy and warmly lit with votive candles - all very romantic.  We sat up at the bar and started with some glasses of red (Montelpulciano for Giggles and Stamps and a Cote de Rhone for me) and the crispy calamari with chili crema and guacamole.  As we munched, Giggles offered me the last bite and said "In my culture whoever has the last bite will have the hottest boyfriend" I liked this train of thought and took the last piece of calamari, scraping what I could of the guacamole off the plate.

For our mains, Stamps had the skate wing with fingerling potatoes, Giggles the roasted chicken with root vegetables and I had the beet salad with goat cheese and a side of cauliflower with anchovy, capers and breadcrumbs.  All of our meals were tasty, generous portions, carefully prepared using seasonal ingredients.

I was full but you must have dessert on your birthday!  We decided (well I decided) on the apple pie with honey gelato with pecans and caramel sauce.  While devouring the last bite, again, I said to Giggles "That last bite thing doesn't make sense.  You would think whoever takes the last bite would be the biggest heifer" to which Stamps assured me "Meh, there are no calories on your birthday!"

I'm pretty sure I'm right, however for tonight I choose to believe my friends!  Mmmm caramel...