So she's got a lot to live up to! Tilth is located in one of the converted houses in wallingford, so right away you know there's not a lot of floorspace.
in fact the decor is almost too sparse maybe? there were about 20 tables, but in nice weather there's an outside deck with tables, and the enclosed front porch is set up as 'bar seating'. they've purchased those hard wooden chairs for all the seating. not the most comfortable, but maybe that's the idea. you won't want to sit and talk over coffee, allowing them to turn the table.
my only real complaint about the dinner was the timing of everything. we ordered the tasting menu and while we brought a bottle of wine ourselves, a wine pairing is available. hear these words. if you can not eat 5 courses & drink 4 glasses of wine (or 1 bottle between 2 people) within a 2 hour time slot, don't even think of having the tasting menu. there was very little time between courses, no where near enough to let the 1 settle before the next. we actually had to ask them to hold the dessert and not bring it out. i think we still had 1/3 of the wine left to finish! so we inserted a cheese course to help us down the rest of the wine. but there we went and added another course of food! LOL
i was really hoping to have the sablefish she had on her online sample menu, however the menu had it listed with celery and celery. with celery 1 of the things i really don't like, i was really disappointed. we decided to try the tasting menu, however i don't like tuna, and the entree was a sirloin. if we were at a steak house i'd've been all over it. but we weren't. so i really wasn't sure what i wanted to do. turning the menu over there is the vegetarian tasting menu. the entree was a bean casserole. ugh, beans. no substitutions allowed, even if i wanted the equivalent course from the meat menu. matt said he'd swap the entree with me. he wouldn't mind the beans and as it turned out the equivalent dish on his menu was something i was considering anyway. so that's what we did. and of course matt had to help me finish off my plates so he got to try both!
so there you have it! a meat & potatos gal goes and orders a 6 course (including the cheese) vegetarian dinner! we were served an amuse bouche but i didn't get a pic of it.
wed oct 7
matt waited over 2 years just to get on their mailing list! the day he got notice he was 'on their list' he ordered a case of wine!
(meat and vege) Delicata Squash Soup: pecans, creme fraiche, thyme
post drowning :-)
(Vege) Sweet Onion Tart: nicoise olive, oven dried tomato
(Meat) St. Jude Albacore Tuna: glazed carrot, basmati, ginger chutney
(meat but given to libby) House Made Ricotta Dumpling: broccoli, smoked lardons, chili flake [lardon is bacon]
(vege but matt ate it) Fall Harvest Cassoulet: shell bean, dragon tongue bean, tomato
(meat) Grass-Fed Top Sirloin: anaheim pepper, blue bird grain faro, romaine heart
(vege) Carnoroli Truffle Risotto: truffle butter, lobster mushroom, dandelion green
(both) chevrette with apple and crackers 
(both) Theo Chocolate Ganache Cake: chocolate cookie, cocoa cream, sea salt + coffee
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