Last Big Dinner

So the day before I left, Ryan and I went out to our last dinner together before I leave for the summer. So depressing. It was a great dinner, not our best, but great none the less! We went to Pinot Provence at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa which is part of the Patine Restaurant Group. Ryan had signed up for their birthday club so we were able to get $30 off of our meal : ) Our meal consisted of a starting appetizer of Escargot with roasted garlic, parsley, French butter, brioche bread crumbs. Ryan got their duck which was seasoned to perfection, had an amazing port reduction sauce and white asparagus cooked to impeccable perfection. I ordered the fish special which was a thin sea bass, cooked with skin on, seasoned with salt. It was accompanied by abalone mushrooms, grilled spring onion, fiddlehead ferns, celeriac purée and asparagus as well, spring onions, which altogether made it light and perfect for summer. We paired our meal perfectly with a beautiful rose that meets both of our pallets amazingly. We finished out our meal with a fantastic dessert called S’mores Gâteau which was a chocolate sponge cake layered with cappuchino gelato, marshmallow brûlée, and espresso tuile. Wonderful! The food at Pinot Provence was a tad over priced, and there were a few things that could have been perfected, yet it was still a wonderful meal. Our conversation was positive and lively as ever, and yet again through this dinner I am reminded of why I love my fiance so dearly. He is perfect for me. Though we were at a fantastic restaurant supposed to be acting like adults, we fell back into who we are: children at heart with a taste for amazing food. I love him and miss him already, and I have only been away from him for barely 24 hours. This will be a long summer without him!

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