30th Anniversary Weekend

Hubs and I just returned from a weekend celebration of our 30th wedding anniversary. We chose the French Country Inn in Lake Geneva on Lake Como. It operates as a B&B (bed and breakfast) type of place. We never made the breakfast but we did eat dessert at their restaurant on Friday night on the patio overlooking the lake while listening to a one man singer (oldies) who was actually really good. We had their brunch this morning. Food was okay but the accommodations were top rate.

This is the path to our room:


Our room and yes that is a fireplace and jacuzzi in the room:



We were directly on the lake and sat outside on these chairs even though the temps were 50 degrees as a high.


Saturday during the day we walked Lake Geneva streets and of course picked up some Mackinaw fudge. Otherwise we just browsed the shops. Saturday evening we ate at Gilbert's in Lake Geneva and chose to have the chef prepare us a 4 course surprise dinner. We gave our likes and dislikes and my allergies but fairly well gave him a wide berth.


The first thing we got was a 'smoothie' I swear was named loose goose (we asked 4 times) and was a watermelon and peach smoothie drink in a small aperitif glass. Next came up our appetizer: seared tuna with pureed parsley, cucumber salad, and teeny oranges which again was good. Next up was another the fish main course: we thought they said it was sea urchins with shatike mushrooms but I could not find a picture of a sea urchin that looked like we had. Instead this picture depicts what we ate which is baby octopus but I think there were sea urchins on top like this picture shows:


Meat course was sliced veal on radicchio greens with Canadian bacon chunks, glazed pear, and baby carrots.

Dessert was in 2 steps: 1st was a cinnamon pancetta with a blueberry in the middle of the spoon, and 2nd was a chocolate souffle with chocolate fudge sauce, coffee ice cream on a fudge brownie, and brown sugar cherries.

It was an interesting dinner.....oh and the sea urchin/octopus thingie - does not taste like chicken.