Incanto

We love food.  And what do we do to celebrate, well, everything?  We eat.  We usually try to do a lot for our birthdays especially because it's something for us to look forward to in our hum drum lives.  This year we went to sushi with his parents and I took him to Chris Cosentino's restaurant, Incanto, in the city.  It was amazing.  We'll definitely be going back.  Definitely.  It was low key, rather casual, and so delicious.  Who knew offal was so good?  I went in feeling a little apprehensive, but let's face it.  I'm Chinese.  Guts don't really gross me out that much.

We actually only ordered starters that were the specials of the night and desserts with a couple of flights of wine.  We started with a calf-liver pate pie and crostinis, then had lamb tripe with porchini mushrooms, and finished with lamb livers over pureed peas.   It was even more awesome that Chris was in his restaurant plating food and walking around the bar.  I kept telling Nick to ask him to take a picture with him, but Nick refused.  We're now thinking about getting his cookbook and going back to have him sign it.  I will surely be doing this before we go see Alton Brown and Carla Hall in a couple weeks in Monterey.

We told a few of our friends about the restaurant and how they have "Leg of Beast" or "Whole Pig" on the menu if you pre-order.  We are soooo doing that.  Whole pig?  Yes, please.

On with the pictures!

Tour of Italy wine flight

Calf-liver pate pie

Pate!

Lamb tripe and porchini mushrooms

Lamb liver over pea puree and pickled carrot
shavings.

Nick's pine nut cake with lemon sorbet

My cheese dessert with olive oil soaked pears over a toasted slice of bread.