Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Wood Tavern

WOOD TAVERN is one of my favorite restaurants in this lovely college town – Berkeley. It is one of those restaurants I immediately fell in love with on my first visit and continue to manage to meet my expectation every time. So when I was scratching my head on where to take my mom for her birthday this year, Wood Tavern conveniently came to mind due to its consistency in maintaining quality new American style cuisine.

Wood Tavern offers a limited seasonal menu that rotates every season. I noticed, however, that while other dishes on the menu changes, there is one dish manages to make its way through the seasonal menu every season - the super thick cut pork chop, which is also my favorite dish here. I can't resist to order it every time I spot it on the menu. As I highly recommended this dish, both of my parents ordered this dish.

We started off with the house bread. The bread was decent. But I only had a small piece as I wanted to leave room for the meal


We order two bowl of aparagus soup as appertizers for my parents. I took a few spoonful and it was quite tasty. The cream, while adding to the pretty presentation, also added a nice kick to the soup so it didn't taste too greeny.


Ju 姐 and I order its famous pork belly to share. The pork belly was really tender and yet cripy on the outside with a nice glaze. I especially liked the plums and figs that went with it. It's really refreshing.




this is the famous grilled double-cut pork chop with bacon, corn, potato and masala cream saurce. The summer sweet corn goes so perfectly with the masala source. The sauce was so addicting that I tempted to dipped the bread in there (excuse my blurry picture please)!


Since both my dad and mom ordered my favorite dish, I thought I would try something new this time. I order the shrimp risotto, which turned out to be a nice surprise! The risotto was cook to perfection, al dented and the saurce had the perfect shrimp taste. One of the best shrimp risotto (in white source) I've ever had. Of course, those who knows me, my favorite risotto is still with La Siciliana Trattoria down the street. hehe!



Ju 姐 is a meat lover, so she ordered the grilled rib eye steak. It didn't say how many ounce this thing was on the menu, but from what it looked like..I believe it's at least 8 oz! The quality of the meat was really good





Dad and Mom and Ju Jei.




We order the warm chocolate cake for dessert the birthday cake (i originally meant to bake my mom a birthday cake but didn't have the time as I was in the middle of another S-1 filing :( )


The chocolate cake comes with a freshly home-made mint ice cream. When I said freshly made I really meant it made in house becase I could taste that they use fresh mint leave! I've never liked mint ice cream but this came in a pleasant surprise. I guess now I can't say I don't like mint ice cream.




Overall, the food was amazing as always. What I found out this time around that impressed me it's the dessert. I am sure I will come back for another special occasion..maybe when he comes.


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