Mildred's Temple Kitchen

After a mostly glowing review by the sometimes slightly snobby (but generally right) Joanne Kates, I thought we should check out Mildred's Temple Kitchen for my birthday dinner.

After a rather long detour through Liberty Village, we finally found the place hidden away in a building. Perhaps I should have paid closer attention to the website directions. Reservations the night before for Friday night at 8 were no problem.

It was a great dining room - double height ceilings with lots of light and a partially open kitchen. There was an odd assortment of people here - the older crowd who were talking about the old mildred's and a 30 and under crowd like ourselves.

Dinner started off well with ricotta gnudi with berkshire bacon and baby tomatoes. There were 5 delightfully light gnocchi and really who can argue with bacon in anything!

Ian had the soup of the day - squid with crab in curry sauce. It was even fun - the squid was already in the bowl, then the waiter came over with the crab curry and poured it over top. OK, now that I write this, it was perhaps only of moderate interest. Anywho, Ian seemed to enjoy.

Main course for Ian was Arctic char with potatoes and some greenery. Ian enjoyed but generally agreed with Joanne that the crust on the fish was a little salty.

I went light and ordered the grilled eggplant with stewed tomatoes on cous-cous. It was fantastic, although was heavy handed with my arch-nemesis, the olive (no mention of this in the menu). The tomato sauce made this dish - sweet and rich. Cous-cous was of the larger grained variety and was creamy and green.

Dessert for me was caramel chocolate tart with sponge toffee - no complaints but was similar to the presidents choice chocolate tart.

Ian had the profiteroles (cream puffs for regular people) with chocolate ice cream and chocolate sauce. Tasty!

Total bill was $160 including tax, tip and a cheap bottle of white.