This was one of the appetiser choices, an avocado and corn timbale with portobello caviar. I loved this, it had a nice tartness and incredible texture, and the flavours went quite well together.
Another appetiser choice, a play on shrimp cocktail - jumbo chilled shrimp on a bed of cucumber and a horseradish cocktail. I would have liked the shrimp to have been seasoned a little more, but it is so hard to get the seasoning right for chilled items, and harder to adjust after it is chilled. Nicole did point out to me that I did not dip the shrimp in the cocktail like I should have and instead ate it plain, so I guess it may have been my own fault.
We had to try the crabcakes since that is a local specialty, and these were served with potato croquettes. An odd choice of pairings, and I am sad to say that the crabcakes were a little disappointing. I love a good crabcake, with juicy crab meat and a nice, sharp, acidic tang, seasoned well and seasoned strongly. Unfortunately for us, this was not it.
This was a play on traditional beef Wellington, but with lamb instead. Taste-wise probably my favourite of the entrees, but the lamb wound up a little over-cooked.
As we slid into the mid-afternoon the light in the Colonnade at the Fairmont began to take on a life of its own, and the shimmering and shading allowed for some beautiful photos of food bathed in a warm white summer glow. This was my favourite of the desserts, a blueberry mascarpone torte which I absolutely could not keep my hands off. I must have been lost to the conversation at this point, for all I could think about was how much I could get onto my spoon without it overflowing.
The dessert selection that we were lucky enough to try. The molten chocolate cake (pistachio center) was a very close second, and I had to arm-wrestle Nicole just to pick the blueberry torte for our event.
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