While stumbling through our usual summer menu updates, we noticed an oddity on the dinner menu for the Financial District's Bix: "Heirloom tomato cart: Prepared tableside. $9.75"
Huh?
Surely this couldn't be what we thought it was. We've heard of cheese carts and dessert carts--even chocolate carts--but a tableside apparatus adorned with a controversial fruit/vegetable like the tomato? And heirlooms at that?
Well, this week's edition of the Tablehopper pretty much confirmed our suspicions. The results are in, and they sound delicious:
Primo tomatoes are served with formaggio de Ferrante mozzarella and finished tableside with extra virgin olive oil, aged balsamic, basil, sea salt, and fresh pepper. To partake in the tomato feast will put ya back $9.75 per plate. The tomato cart should be wheeling around the restaurant until Halloween.Done and done.
Bix [MenuPages]
Bix [Official Site]
July 31, 2007 Newsletter [Tablehopper]
[Photo courtesy: Papagenos]
