Last year, I heard
chef Edward Lee on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, he was funny and entertaining, and since I was going to Kentucky anyway to visit my pal Jen, making a stop at his restaurant in Louisville seemed in order. So I flew to Louisville last Friday, Jen came over from Lexington to pick me up, and we had a fantastic dinner at
610 Magnolia.
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| If you're only getting a tiny bite of grilled ham and cheese, this is the bite to get. |
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| Quite possibly the prettiest (and tastiest) bowl of pea soup ever. |
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| Jen's fantastic pork belly and eel terrine. |
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Charred octopus, yogurt, carrot and those tiny potato chips -
the picture does not do justice to how delicious this was. |
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| Halibut, cauliflower couscous, baby carrots, romesco, and some other tasty delights. |
Jen had a lovely cheese plate for dessert, I got the overly complicated "drunken banana cake with whipped butterscotch, dehydrated chocolate, bourbon maple syrup, dried corn, brown butter ice cream and smoke." Re: the smoke (a peaty cloud which wafted up when I removed the lid on my dish), I'm not sure I'm on board with the 'smell this/now eat this' convention of dining, and there might have been four too many ingredients in that dish, but overall, it was a wonderful meal. We also had the fancy-restaurant-staple of a sorbet palate cleanser (mango-kiwi), and chocolate truffles with the check (bourbon in the truffles, it's Kentucky, after all).
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| 610 Magnolia - who would think such lovely food would come out of this simple building? |
