Good eats

Highlights of some fine recent meals:

at Fandango in Pacific Grove, CA
Their cassoulet was wonderful as always. If you can't spend all day (and more) in the kitchen to make your own cassoulet, get Fandango to do it.
The wine: 1999 Corton Clos Du Roi, Vincent Girardin. It was everything I hope a Burgundy will be. And so civilized that it's available in half bottles.

at Passionfish, also in Pacific Grove
Appetizers: fried oysters, then butternut squash soup with bacon (swoon). The kitchen split both of these for us without prompting.
Main: mahi with black pepper/rum sauce, cucumber salad, green onion rice
Wine: a Chablis Grand Cru by - oops, didn't write that one down. More nervy and elegant than the 2006 Petit Chablis by Roland Lavantureux we had last week.

Thoughts on a more distant restaurant soon ...