MaryCierra / Mary loves the life

Just had my first dinner at Lucques last week. What a wonderful evening! Started off with a Pot O’Gold cocktail, which happened to taste exactly like an iced Hot Toddy. Next time I would try a different cocktail for that reason alone. SO had a Tanq and Tonic – fantastic!

I started with a lima bean salad – pretty presentation with nice flavors. Main course was stellar – Prosciutto wrapped Guinnea Hen. Heaven! Easy to tell the hen had been brined as its meat was so full of juicy flavor. Hen was served with a warm ricotta cake (kind of odd – I didn’t care for it much) as well as sausage stuffing. Thumbs up!

Dessert was nice… I’ll be honest… by the time our sweets came around I’d had a bit of wine and don’t remember them so well. One was a date cake that actually tasted like Tiramisu, and the other was something chocolate.

Great atmosphere, great service, good to great food – would definitely try again.

I have such wonderful memories of the Oregon Zoo. We would go frequently when I was a child and though I didn’t realize it at the time, I now see how thoroughly spoiled I was by it.

Unlike many zoos I’ve been to since, the Oregon Zoo has been designed to give the animals beautiful habitats. Not that the animals care, I’m sure, but it makes me feel better seeing the little penguins zip and slide around “glaciers”, or the lions lounging in their own little desert, chomping their steak dinners.

The surrounding Washington park is also lovely – green, fresh and potentially very romantic.