As I was driving home last night, I decided I so did not want to deal with traffic. I figured I’d pull in to the Westlake Drive area and hit the Chili’s there and nosh until the traffic lightened up. Lo and behold, Chili’s there has been closed. Bugger. So, I looked around a bit and noticed a cafe on the other side called Thistle Cafe. I’d never been there before. Never heard of it before for that matter. But, I really didn’t want to deal with traffic and I needed dinner. So, in I went.
Wow. I had one of the best dinners I’ve had in quite some time. I started out with calamari and a glass of decent Reisling. Then the main course came – pan seared mahi-mahi covered in a crab cream sauce with saffron rice and sauted spinach.
I am not one for sauted spinach. I don’t care for it in the least. However, when I mixed it in with the saffron rice and the cream sauce – wow. It worked well together and I actually enjoyed sauted spinach for the first time in my life. The mahi-mahi had a zest and zing to it that awakened the taste buds and made them want to shout for joy. Every bite was a delight. Then…as if dinner itself hadn’t been sinful enough. I ordered coffee with chocolate silk cream pie for dessert.
Now, there’s chocolate silk pie and then there’s chocolate silk pie…this one was a little slice of heaven. I’m pretty sure Zeus is throwing a hissy because someone snagged a sniffer of his best ambrosia to mix in with the pie’s ingredients. One bite and decadence exploded across my tongue and little dancers leaped through my brain with streamers of exquisite delight shivering through my body.
The coffee was a perfect foil to the rich and creamy pie. By the time I was finished with my meal, I could have faced Hades himself with a smile on my face…much less plow through the traffic between me and my front door.
I will definitely be making Thistle Cafe a regular stop on my dining circuit.