With Frank Bruni recommending Dovetail as his 5th favorite new restaurant of 2008, getting a reservation here might soon be a pain in the ass. Let me just say that whatever you need to do, it will be worth it. Yes the food is good and the service attentive but the desserts are really what make Dovetail special. If you can’t go for dinner and dessert, or just dessert, brunch will give you a good feel for the place. More on their desserts here.
Today it was all about the Sunday Brunch. Essentially, for $28.00 you get to eat the best of Dovetail’s sweet and savory for 2 hours non-stop. They bring you all kinds of stuff from Greek yogurt with honey and granola to a mini duck meatballs on a skewer. They also hook you up with a hot basket of breads that contained a focaccia, a salty biscuit-like scone and a brown sugar topped maple mini muffin.
Eventually, after about an hour and half of eating they bring you the brunch dessert. The main feature was an apple crumble with vanilla bean ice cream. On the side was a micro-chocolate brownie, a nano-micro crepe with cheese cake filling and a dense almond financier.
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You have to be pretty hardcore into dessert to actually enjoy a dessert at brunch where you have already consumed muffins scones, focaccia, Greek yogurt, cold parsnip soup, duck meatballs, french toast with bacon and caramelized apples and powdered sugar (or another of the main brunch courses), but with my blog in mind I soldiered through.
All the main courses were excellent as were the pre-meal courses. I liked the all the desserts but a member of my party of six thought the apple crumble tasted like apple sauce with one cooked apple section floating inside. Everyone agreed the savory scones were just stellar. This favorable opinion was driven home by the fact that even though we were all stuffed and knew there was more food on the way, we kept asking for more scones and we kept eating them.
Dovetail’s website is here.
