Dinner at Olives

As part of my birthday present, my wife took me out to dinner at Todd English's restaurant Olives in Charlestown. It was a great meal.

The best part about it was the service. Truly fantastic from the valet to our goodbye.

The food was very good as well. We started with the black truffle and foie gras flan. Interesting way to do foie gras...but didnt get much truffle flavor. It was served on a wild mushroom ragu. Sorry the picture is so blurry, I tried taking it without the flash but got less shy with later courses (that may have been the Oban)

My entree was the hot smoked duck breast and leg confit. It was cooked perfectly and nice and tender. The confit, one of my favorite foods, was very good too. It also had a big crispy scallion pancake folded to separate the duck preparations.

My wife had the monster sized grilled bone in pork chop with fingerling potato and pork belly hash.

For dessert we had a sampling of three sorbets (the mango was my favorite) and some biscotti.

After dinner Jane took me to see STAR WARS in Concert. What a cool show! Thats where the stormtrooper photo fits in.