Est Restaurant-Martinborough

We arrived in Martinborough and after realizing it was 8:30pm, we raced into town to seek out dinner. After reading the menu at Est we walked in to inquire about dinner--luckily they offered us a table if we could wait for half an hour. We sat at their comfortable leather sofa and drank wine (I had a Walnut Ridge Pinot Noir) while perusing our new favorite Cuisine Magazine. The host (who we later learned was the owner) was crazed. It's exam time, so she was covering for missing staff members who were students. We were so glad we stayed, as the food was stellar.

I had a goat cheese entree, atop a brioche and topped with pears that had been marinated in mulled wine. For my main I had a spinach ricotta ravioli atop stewed veggies--carrots, fennel, squash? It all tasted very fresh and the ravioli must have been homemade. For dessert we had a cinnamon & ? brulee with some crispy apple (ala dried apple). It was reminiscent of mom's custard topped with nutmeg. Very good! Brian had a salmon entree and a pork loin for his main.

One of the main reasons (besides the great looking menu) we wanted to eat there was that they're only open Wednesday through Sunday for dinner and we leave Wednesday. We're noticing that Monday and Tuesday are pretty dead in town, so we'll have to plan meals and tastings accordingly.