An Adventurous Feast

Since I'm just getting this thing back up and running, there's no "Links O' the Week" this week.  You're bummed, I know.  Here, cry on my shoulder.  There you go, get it all out.  Shhh....it'll be okay.

Weird.

Anyway, Sandy, Zac, and Kourtney, and I went to Feast last night and shared this as one of our appetizers:

Damn right kids, that's a little pig's brain.  Served on a piece of delicious bread, accompanied by their "Green Sauce", which is basically a pesto.  I'm not gonna try and play cool and say it was the best thing I ever ate.  It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great, either.  I think we were all expecting something a little chewy.  It surprisingly had the consistency of pate or braunschweiger.  Between the four of us, we finished the thing off, but I don't think any of us were running out to try to fix it at home.

We've always wanted to try Feast, and spurred on by an erroneous (or misleading) post by the Houston Press food blog, we reserved our table a week ago.  It was good.  It was damn good.  It was adventurous and not like anything else I've seen in Houston.  The prices were $25 or so per entree, which is just about right for the restaurant.  The service was impeccable.  In fact, I think our server was one of the owners, Megan Silk, who quickly assured us:  Feast is not closing, they are only opening a new location in New Orleans, and she wasn't too happy about that rumor spreading like wildfire.  I'm guessing, like in our case, it got some more people in the restaurant.

Just FYI on what we had:  Sandy - Lamb Shank; Kourtney - Fish and Scallop Pie (think Shepherd's Pie with seafood); Zac - Pork Chop; Myself - Bath Chaps (Pig's cheek and jowl meat).  The best thing on the table was proabably a tie between Sandy's lamb and Kourtney's...erm...pie.