A nice dinner at Martine’s Wine Bar tonight.
The porn star Martini
Very nice lettuce and fennel salad
Stuffed zucchini blossoms with cacio e pepe sauce. These were good. They would have been better if they had been fried in hotter oil.
Potato purée topping charred cabbage. We liked this.
Ajo Blanco. This was probably my favourite dish tonight.
Egg raviolo with BC crab and nduja bisque ($50). This was fair/ satisfactory. The nduja dominated the dish for me, overwhelming the crab. Nice plating, though.
It was a novelty to order this $50 pasta. Until today, the $46 pasta at AloBar in Feb 2024 had been the most expensive pasta I had ordered in Toronto.
Service was friendly, as always.