Celebrating at The Manor

It's funny growing up I was the only one in my immediate family that didn't have a birthday in July. My  Mom, Dad and Brother all have July birthdays. I can remember always having huge fourth of July parties growing up and it would be a combination birthday party for Matthew. I'll never forget when Mike told me his Dad had the exact same birthday as me, it was so strange, what are the chances? Now we get to have a big birthday celebration together every year. I remember the first time we did it, we had our parents meet us at our favorite restaurant in the city, Orso, and we celebrated both birthdays. This year we decided to celebrate all together by going to The Manor for dinner. Mike and I had been meaning to go there for our anniversary and with the cruise we never made it, it's such an elegant, special place to go for dinner, we thought it would be perfect to go with both families. After all, the last time we were all there was for our wedding, over one year ago.

Once we were all at The Manor, we were ready to enjoy a fantastic meal. Everything from the bread basket, which deserved it's own picture, their onion rolls are amazing, there was also little onion roll toast slices, I'm such a sucker for bread.  They first brought us out the chef's special course, which they always do, this time it was a potato leek soup, delicious, and some kind of I think it was shrimp, or maybe it was salmon in this little cone thing, also quite tasty.

This was only the beginning, then we moved on to our appetizer course. I am never one to pass up the chance to have ravioli's. I ordered the "Homemade imported burrata cheese ravioli in a red pepper sauce with shaved fennel." I'm not going to lie this was probably my least favorite course I've had at The Manor. Not that it was bad, but it was so heavy on the sauce I didn't really enjoy it. But the salad made up for it, and I loved the presentation, it was a iceberg lettuce with tomato and sliced avocado served with blue cheese and bacon bits.

For my main course I decided to venture out a bit and try the sauteed artic char. Our waiter described it as a fish similar to salmon, which I enjoy so I was game to try this one. It was served with baby leeks, carrots, petite zucchini in a lemon infused olive oil, although no carbs with this one. It was very good. The best course had to be dessert of course. I ordered the Apple & Mille Fueille, it was incredible. It was baked phyllo layered with sauteed apples and vanilla pastry cream. And they also brought out three other dessert plates for us, one for mine and dad's birthday and one for our first anniversary. Who could go wrong with all of those?

It was such a fantastic meal, I love everything about dining at The Manor, they really uphold the tradition of fine dining in a beautiful atmosphere with incredible food and fantastic service. It was a really nice treat to go there and celebrate with our whole family.

Some pictures of the gang, love the atmosphere at The Manor!