The Girl and The Goat

Kate Cheeseman, a friend and fellow fan of Top Chef, had reservations at the Girl and The Goat for last Friday but could not use them. She sent an email out to a group of us asking if anyone wanted them and I jumped all over it.

The Girl and the Goat is a fairly new restaurant (summer of 2010) that was opened by Top Chef winner from season 4, Stephanie Izard. Honestly, I have heard nothing but good things from everyone who has been there. The reservation was for 4 people so the Ploths decided to go with us and I decided to keep a small running diary of the experience. The italics is exactly what I wrote on Friday night.

Thanks Cheeseman! - A little setup - 6 pm reservation started with a beer at Ploths' house before walking over to the restaurant.

Avery ellie's brown for my cuz! - dog pic on the front. Good tasting beer. Very smooth. - They had a really good beer selection. I was very surprised by the beer selection. This beer is from Boulder, CO and Colorado University has interest in my cousin, Autumn. Soooooo, I decided to order it.

Bridgeport kingpin- oregon oldest craft brewery...who knew? Double red ale - not hoppy... I like it. - The 2nd and last beer of the night for me was a double red ale. I took a gamble and I won! It was not hoppy. Me and hops do not mix! 1st round - Before we get started, here are a few pics.

Alcohol list - Beer list in the middle.


Place setting...


The specials...


Here is the menu. I am bummed this pic ended up blurry. The top is labeled v, f and m for vegetables, fish and meat.


Bread - fat and - liver butter is incredible!!! - I am not a bread guy but I loved this butter!!!
culture club - cheddar sour dough - ok but liver butter blows it away. - We got 2 breads...Yep.

V-
roasted cauliflower - 6th thing to arrive. Really like the jalapeno with it. This is what everyone says to try. Pine nuts good! - Everyone I talked to said try this and it was very good.

Sp gratin- 7th and final is this. Looks like onion rings. Super thin, deep fried sweet potatoe. Yes! Sweet pot casserole underneath with crispy sweet potatoe slices...wow. Blue cheese too, sweet flavor...word pun! - The strange part was we got our veggies last. It was clearly a mistake by someone but it did not matter. The sweet potato gratin was sooo good. Great way to end the meal.

F- escargot ravioli - 3rd out. Like that plates come out 1 at a time - These plates are meant to be shared but instead of 3 or 4 plates coming out and overwhelming you, they came out one at a time (except for dessert). I really like this. The most we ever had was two plates at the table.

Grilled baby octopus - 1st dish out. Really good. Good flavor. Let's be honest. My pallet isn't very good. - Nothing to add.

M - goat pork veal sugo- 2nd - noodle type lasagne with 3 meats. Good as usual. The spice kick is great. - This was my 2nd favorite thing we had.

Roasted pork shank - 5th out- little strange that we didn't get veggies. This looks great. The meat fell off the leg. The sweet sauerkraut with it was really to my liking. - It is always a good sign when you don't need a knife to cut the meat.

2- smoked goat empinadas - 4th out- mmm deep fried spicy yummness! I like! Best dish so far - I would go back for these. We ordered two plates of these since one plate only had two pieces on it. It was a GREAT decision by us.

2nd rd-dessert-



Choc cake and things- The actual dessert was bittersweet chocolate, shiitake gelato, toffee creme fraiche. I really liked it. It was my favorite dessert by far.

Rhubarb-n-lemon - This came in a glass jar. You need to get the spoon down to get a good bite. It was good. Nothing here was bad.

Goat cheese(juliana) - Ploth and I decided to get some goat cheese as well. Why not?

Sidenote: tim burton esque phot is the only art in the place. Creepy. Very creepy. - The only art in the building on our side atleast is a giant pic that looks like a came out of a Tim burton movie (ie Edward Scissor hands). It creeped me out.

In the end, I was glad that we were able to take the reservations (thank you mom and dad for watching Samantha). Dinner was about 2 hours long and I was shocked at how busy the place was even at 6 pm.

I wish I could tell you we went home after dinner but instead we went to the ploths for a chocolate martini, karaoke and Euchre. Good times by all!