Il Mulino

I have to tell you all about my Wednesday night. I went to dinner at a little restaurant called Il Mulino. It was a group of 12 of us from work. My co worker Joelle and I were the first to arrive and we walked in to check and see if anyone else has arrived. We opened the door and it was the darkest, smallest, most crowded restaurant i have ever been to. It it was even weirder when we realised that everyone standing there was a male in a dark suit. Needless to say we waited outside for everyone else. This restaurant was something right out of the Godfather or the Sopranos. When the entire party was there they sat us at a table that couldn't have fit more than 6 people but we got 12 in there. I don't think the restaurant had more than 30 tables and 30 might even be to many. After we got settled we noticed that food was already on the table and from that moment on the food just kept coming. We started with bruschetta, fried zucchini, bread, crispy garlic bread, and mussels. The bruschetta was my favorite. I really don't like mussels but these i have to say were actually good. Those starters were done family style. The next course was individual servings of tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, prosciuto, and a roasted bell pepper. Also good. The third course was warm seafood. There was a large prawn, clams, and calamari also individually served. Another surprise I liked all of them. The fourth course was a pasta course. This course was by far my favorite. Individual portions of pasta with three home made sausages, lobster ravioli, and to die for mushroom ravioli's with black truffle sauce. Oh man it was amazing. The fifth course was the main course. We each ordered our own main course and I had the Dover soul with a lemon and butter sauce. For all of you that know me i can never turn down a lemon and butter sauce. The fish was excellent. The sixth course was family style of deserts. We tried sorbets, fruit with fresh cream topping of yumminess, tiramisu, chocolate cake, and cookies. Wow i hope you were keeping track and realised that I said yes 6 courses. It was unbelievable. The food was wonderful. But even better was the company. We all had a great time and laughed like crazy. That restaurant didn't know what hit them after we left. After a few bottles of wine everyone was is rare form and talking really loud. It was a really fun but late night. Poor Ryan didn't get to come but it was really nice of him to let me go. He is going to laugh at me because he says all i talk about on this blog is where and what we ate. I blame my family for being very food centered and that is usually what we are doing. But I'm not complaining. I love Food.