Mike and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary this past Saturday. We were married at the Admiralty Head Lighthouse on Whidbey Island with 16 very special people in attendance. After the ceremony (and a quick climb to the top of the lighthouse) we celebrated with dinner at the Inn at Langley.
Ever since, we’ve talked about going back for our anniversary “sometime”. This year we finally managed to make it happen. After a day spent working on the farm, we showered and got all gussied up and drove down to catch the ferry to eat our mostly sustainable, local dinner. Four hours and 7 courses later we felt well celebrated and thoroughly spoiled.
The menu was similar, but also very different than it was in 2004.
The corn soup was “lick your bowl” good, the salmon was amazing, the lamb made even a lamb-ambivalent like me drool and the cheese course was surprisingly delicious. Perhaps most fascinating was the BLT-H2O Inermezzo. It was all the flavors of a BLT (well, minus the bread and mayo) in a shot glass. It really did taste like fresh tomato, smokey bacon and spring lettuce. Was strange and wonderful all at the same time.
And dessert. Wow. Dessert. I’ve never had huckleberries like that before. It was simply mouthwateringly good. I’d go back just for it again. The huckleberry balloon (frozen and hollow), the huckleberry gelee that looked like egg yolks, the lemon curd. Wow.
We weren’t able to get a room at the Inn (they were full) so after our dinner we laughed and chatted our way back to the ferry and made the drive home. The horses were thrilled to see us and it was nice to wake up in our own bed after all.
It was a fantastically expensive, wonderfully indulgent way to celebrate. If you ever have the opportunity, Matt Costello and his staff are well worth the visit.