I can’t believe it has been a month since I posted my last Photo Friday! Today I’m happy to share with you photos from my wedding dinner, which was at El Paseo, a wonderful French restaurant in Mill Valley, CA. If you’re in the area, do make a reservation — the food is phenomenal.
So, my ability to take photos of food in dimly lit restaurants is still not so great. In fact, the pics do absolutely no justice to how delicious the food was, but it’s all I’ve got. We had four courses plus dessert; each course had two options. We also had an amuse bouche to start off with, but the photos of that turned out so poorly that I haven’t included them. I’ll tell you about it though: it was a warm-and-cold fresh pea soup served in a shot glass. There were whole peas on the bottom (yummy!) and creme fraiche on the top (mmm).
Next was the first course, for which there were two options:
Heirloom tomato salad
Big Eye Tuna Tartare with Wasabi Caviar and Poached Egg
The photo above is a little too bright (it was the only one I used a flash for), but at least that means you can see that amazing poached egg on the upper left. It looks like a purse! How did the chef do that?! (FYI, John Lo is my brother. Shout out to my brother!)
Next, for the second course we all had a fabulous sweet corn soup. It was to die for.
Soup de Maies
For the third course there were two options. One was a Dungeness Crab Croquette, which turned out too blurry in the photo so I haven’t uploaded it. The other choice was this truffle risotto — a savory, earthy, cheesy treat.
Forest Mushroom Risotto with Truffles
For the fourth course, there was fish or steak to choose from. The filet mignon was the most melt-in-your-mouth filet I have ever had. Wow. (The photo is bad but I have to include it because, again, wow).
Angus Beef Filet Megnon with Sauce Madeira
The other option was this fish, which the menu said was ocean trout but really looked a lot like salmon. I was a little confused. Also, it had the disadvantage of being served at the same time as the filet, which basically kicked every other course to the curb.
Pan Seared Ocean Trout with Turnip and Seaweed Sauce
Lastly, we had two desserts to choose from, a chocolate cake with chocolate sorbet (the photos were bad), or this scrumptious apple tart:
Apple Tart with Vanilla Ice Cream
We chose to forgo wedding cake because, frankly, I’d rather have pie. 
The apple tart was fantastic.
Hope you all have a great weekend filled with lots of good food!
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I always love it when you post food photos, makes me feel less odd for posting my own food photos.
I know what you mean by the trout, I had rainbow trout once and thought it was salmon, but the colour is seemingly identical but the taste completely different.
The filet looks delicious, and wow is that a lot of food!
Cheers and congrats on your wedding!
It’s totally NOT ODD to post food photos. (looks suspiciously over shoulder)
Just wanted to say this:
CONGATULATIONS on your wedding.
Please keep posting food photos; I look forward to them!
Looks like a wonderful wedding feast. Good Wishes to your happiness.
I seem to have developed a Pavlovian Responses to your food photos….
Congratulations again on your wedding !!!
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