PRE-Birthday Dinner with Miki-san

After a long but necessary day driving through rain home from New Jersey, Cafe Drake was treated to a pre-Bday dinner extravaganza courtesy of Miki S! Upon our exhausted arrival we were immediately revived with a bottle of bubbles and tapas: potatoes cooked with chorizo, stringbeans sauteed with pinenuts and slivered almonds and a refreshing carrot and orange salad.

A carefully crafted main course consisted of PERFECTLY cooked, supernaturally tender squid stuffed with potatoes and Parmesan, drizzled with spicy tomato puree and sided with garlic, sausage and parsley-filled mushroom caps.

Miki pulled out all stops with a dessert of cream cheese cake (complete with sparklers) and chocolate martinis. What a way to start the official Birthday Weekend!!