The Girl and the Goat

The girl and the goat is Chicago's new hot spot. The chef is Stephanie Izzard winner of Top Chef season 4. The menu is tapas style, there are three sections Vegetable, Fish, Meat plus a small menu with the bread and specials. To start off we ordered Shaved Squash and Kohlrabi with fennel, evalon, toasted almonds and ginger dressing. This was a great start, the squash was raw and provided that nice crisp crunch and the ginger dressing was also a great compliment to the salad.

Next was the Goat Belly Confit with Quince and fried lentils even though the food runner said capers. The Goat belly was devine, it was perfect matched with the quince.

The next dish was pan roasted Barramundi with black beans, butternut squash, chicken of the wood mushrooms.

Our next dish was Grilled beef short ribs with edamame and scallion vinaigrette. The beef broth was the standout of the dish, we even used the spoon to sip the rest of the sauce.

For dessert we ordered cocoa nib donuts-pomegranate ganache, brut sabayon, smoked pear, and pine nut brittle. Wow, the server when dropping off the dish commented that they are more like dumplings.

Our next dessert dish was bourbon apples-cranberry, miso marcona almond, and maple fat gelato. This was amazing, the maple fat gelato at the bottom was described by the server as the best thing he has ever eaten.

Had a great time with great company with my dad and my sister came up to visit.