Three Brothers Restaurant

After a long day of cleaning up my condo I was ready for a good meal. I heard about 3 brothers restaurant from my friend and also I saw the restaurant featured on Food TV so I decided to make a reservation there. The restaurant is a neighborhood restaurant (suggesting cheap food but not too good décor) which serves "home style" cooking (meaning lots of gravy with stuff).

The soft drink tasted funny as well as my ice tea.
The Lamb dish is below. It was really good. The slow cooked meat shredded apart easily. I took pleasure in sucking out the marrow, which I haven't eaten for a long time. On top the lap was a tomato-sort of chutney and served with it was sour cabbage (not my favorite thing) and rice and carrots. It was quite good, and not too many places do lamb well. I do think I prefer my lamb in a stew-like white sauce, with vegetables. My mom used to make it that way.

The Gulash was good. Nothing sophisticated in the gravy sauce as it was the regular concoction of garlic, onions, bay leaf, etc. Nevertheless it was tasty. It was quite plainly served with two dumplings. I didn’t grow up on dumpling so to me dumplings are tasteless, and have the consistency of cooked dough. I would have preferred two scoops of white rice (medium grain).

One nice touch was the cook came out to greet people and ask how their meal was. Not too many restaurants do that.



















Probably the best thing that night was dessert. Nice warm crepes, just sweet enough with melted Nutella followed by a sip of coffee to cut the sweetness, but not too bitter. Yummy! I would go back for that.

David happy...(GRUNT)

Lettuce wraps



















I decided to post some of my home cookin'. These turned out really good. I marinated chicken breast in shoyu, sugar, MSG and garlic and fried them in a pan with sesame oil. Cooked some rice noodles and dried shitake mushrooms with shoyu/sugar combo. Mixed these together with Chinese parsley (cilantro) . I served these with boston lettuce, bean sprots, cucumber and some more cilantro. I made up my own peanut sauce. I fogot to add tamari, shucks. But for the sauce I mixed together peanut butter, sesame oil, thai curry paste, hoisin sauce, red wine vinegar and thinned it out with coconut milk. Yummy.

Roots Restaurant in Milwaukee
(Rootsmilwaukee.com)

For Valentine’s Day we went to Roots. The restaurant is located in a posh developing area right outside the city limits, called Brewer's Hill. It seems there was some money put into the architecture of the restaurant. The restaurant was on a hill with two floors, an outside patio, modern design, and I'm sure the price for custom iron roots in the decor comes at a premium.

For Salads:
Grilled Sashimi Scallops with sunflower shoots, cumin crackers tomatillos, pepitas














Duck Confit Wontons with mixed greens, portabella chips foie gras emulsion














Dinner:
Kobe Beef with barley and Vegetables














Seared Ahi with purple sticky rice, coconut sauce, curry sauce, and vegetables.














Dessert - Creme Brule

Overall the restaurant was excellent all around. . .food, service, atmosphere. Probably one of the finer restaurants in Milwaukee as the ingredients were gourmet. Such as sunflower shoots and kobe beef (which I really wonder if it was the real thing).

There was an Asian flare to some of the dishes. . .that’s right “fusion” is the buzz word for today. I’m not one to discriminate against trying new foods and combinations, but it seems chefs try to put too many different flavors together for the “fusion” of it, and not because they really taste good. I’d prefer a well done traditional entrée over some nouveau mediocre affair.

I had a chocolate martini, served with a chocolate strawberry. Yum!

Kirsch's Restaurant at the French Country Inn, Lake Geneva

The waitress brought out right away a fruit plate,warm muffins and popovers sprinkled with powdered sugar. Sweet!














We ate eggs benedict prepared two ways:
Lobster cakes with lemon bernaise














Filet Mignon with spicy bernaise

Wednesday Night Dinner at - THE SOCIAL

I have been having an upset stomach for the past couple weeks so I don't eat too much food. So when I eat I'm very hungry. More so because I had come from a long interview and driven 1.5 hours to get back to Milwaukee.

Overall the food was really good. A little pricey (meaning a few dollars over the market price) but after we ate it was worth it. The cuizine didn't look that complex but it has some nice layers of flavor which were not ordinary.

I had monk fish with beets and pallenta (which is what read on the menu but it was actually spaetzle). The beets were bacon flavored and the fish was nicely cooked.










David had a warm duck breast salad with cherries and beats and goat cheese. Well we share all our meals so I shouldn't really said one of us had one thing. The duck salad was yummy. Nothing I haven't tasted before but it was well prepared. The duck was nicely cooled mediumn rare and the mix of beets and cherries in the salad was a great combination.