Brenda Board, Cencibel member, French pastry tea chef, Tea and French wine sommelier AND
Founder of Oliver & Company Tea Room Presents An eight-course High Tea expressly for Cencibel
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 7:00 O’clock in the Evening
Dear fellow Cencibels,
Please find the menu for February (the great month of chocolates). Oliver & Company has offered suggestions for wine pairings; please use your standards for pairing wines by members. I hope you will be as delighted with our February menu as I have been planning it for us!
R.S.V.P. with your Entree Choice AND WINE to Brenda
Menu
Although tea for Oliver & Company is the new chocolate, we
have infused our menu with both!
Amuse Bouche
The chef’s tea infused palate creation
Suggested Wine: Champagne
Appetizer
Three–tiered tea selections of
Cucumber cream cheese, fresh dill tea sandwiches, warm fresh walnut & Grand Marnier scones served with lemon curd and clotted cream
Darjeeling, champagne of teas
Suggested wine: Champagne
Bread
Gougeres
Salad
Foie Gras, romaine & arugula
Balsamic olive oil vinaigrette
or
Frisee, arugula, poach pears, goat cheese
Suggested Wine: Alsace Riesling
Intermezzo
Mint and Green tea sorbet on chocolate tuille
Sencha, green tea…a digestive
Entree Choice of:
poached Salmon, white chocolate sauce and vanilla bean asparagus
Duck breast a la chocolate Gasconne
Garlic sauce served over potatoes
Haricot Vert
Seared chicken breast accompanied white wine mustard sauce
wilted Mustard Greens
Grilled Steak with chocolate Merlot sauce
wild mushroom accompaniments
Kenilworth Garden Op Tea
Wine Suggestions: Burgundy or Bordeaux
Fromage
French Gruyere, Tomme de Savoie, Oliver & Company’s most beloved,
Bleu d’Auvergne
French Verveinne Tea
Wine Suggestion: Muscat Dessert Wines
Dessert
Le Chocolat Buffet
Wine Suggestion: Muscat Dessert Wines
Directions to The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1630 Latimer Street) in Rittenhouse Square:
From the I-95 Expressway, take the Vine Street Expressway to 15th Street (left lane for left turn south). Pass Race, Cherry, Arch, JFK Blvd. Market, Chestnut Juniper, Walnut, Locust (9 traffic lights). Just past Locust you will find a small street on the right--turn West (right) into the 1500 block of Latimer Street where you will find two enclosed garages Latimer Garage and Town Garage.
From the Blue Route and Schuylkill Expressway, after 30th Street, stay all the way over in the right lane until 15th Street. Turn right at 15th Street. Follow directions above to Latimer Street.
From South Jersey and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, take the Vine Street Expressway to 15th Street (left lane for left turn south). Follow directions above to Latimer Street.
The Colonial Dames House is one block West of the parking garages at 1630 Latimer Street.
Please have your ticket stamped at Colonial Dames for a reduced rate.
Safe Travels.
The cost is $75 per person for members and first time guests; $85 per person for non-members. Payment covers food, tax & gratuities. The cancel-by date is February 13th as the final count is due to the chef; per Cencibel policy, refunds are not issued after this date.
Please mail your check payable to 'Cencibel' to
- Laura Lambright, Treasurer
- 1012 Red Tail Rd.
- Audubon, PA 19403-1841
OR pay via PayPal.
Members/First Time Guests via PayPal @ $78
Non-Members via PayPal @ $88
We look forward to seeing you!!
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