18.05.12
The edibles: You want appetizers like a continental breakfast?
Then Twenty/20’s Mason jar starters have your artisan bread covered. There are toppings, from tapenade and goat cheese, to hummus and PB&J.
If Norway’s butter paucity has taught me anything, it’s that you can’t dismiss bread-spread alternatives. Even if they are $4 to $6 each and served in venerated, makeup-jar-like, glass containers. So I went with a Sonoma-sourced, not-at-all-nasty goat cheese - which had nice cheesecake properties. The accompanying board-made strawberry jam tipped the whole enterprise further away from tang. Good.
I also got the $10 barbecued tomatoes and lamb souvlaki. Arriving on four skewers, the starter was the well-disposed of finger food a catering staff patiently offers you on a tray. The pumpkin-embryo pesto dip – a tart lotion - was the wrong companion for the wanton souvlaki (think lamb kebab in a tart lotion).
It’s fit that the hometown mussels were repped here ($16 Carlsbad mussels with bacon lardons and smoked paprika butter).
Source: SignOnSanDiego.com