My culinary experience - Mary Elaines, Phoenician resort, Phoenix
 

Truly the most divine dining experience of my existance. I would recommend such a thing to everyone once. The meal I was served, in six courses:

Chilled Asparagus soup, uni cerme fraiche, dungenous crab, curry

Crispy Skate Wing Panzanella, Baby artichoke barigoule, mint, tomato
Wine: Cantina del Taburno Falanghina, Campania, Italy, 2004

Confit of Wild Salmon, spiced urnip cake, mustard vin blanc
wine: Heidler Reisling, Kamptal, Austria, 2001

Sauteed Burgandy Snails, basquaise peppers, organic eggs brouillade, brioche
wine: Rene Lopez de Heredia "Vina Tondonia" Rose, Rioja, Spain, 1995

Roasted Squab Breast, eggplant tarte tatin, rhubarb, foie gras jus
wine: E. Guigal Hermitage, Rhone Valley, France, 2000

Natural Arizona Beef duo, white corn, fava beans, fennel soubise
Heiz cellar "Martha's Vineyard" Cabernet Sauvingnon, Napa Valley, 1998

Carmelized pinapple, coconut, ginger snap, balinese long pepper
(don't have the wine listed, as it was the sommelier's selection)

I don't recall the wine we started with. It was a white German wine on the fruity side.

Unique and devine.

Sounds delicious!

You forgot to mention the bonus celebrety guest phone call.

Awww, I would rather have been at dinner than just on the phone interrupting. ;)

Still, to be at such a Swanky place when one receives a stalker-call from Mrs. Swank was a tad bit ironic, eh? I've even got a pic of NA as she was speaking to him.

:eek: I thought you were kind of past that stalking stage with me, NA. :eek:

Can't wait to see it.

The call was a bit creepy. At least it didn't go like this -

Leo: "Hello?"
NA: "Hi Leo...it's Lisa."
Leo: "I can't talk right now."
NA: "I know. You're at Mary Elaines. How was the panzanella?"
Leo: (Shocked silence followed by a scream of terror)

LOL! I''ve never had so much fun being feared. I think I'll watch Cape Fear tonight and see if I can get some tips. :evil:

Here it is, Scaeagles. Disregard the date- I have no idea, but somehow it got messed up during the trip.