Miss Pineapple, Pittsburgh
Age and Occupation: 24, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Student Affairs Administration
Engagement Date: August 4, 2007
Wedding Date: October, 2008
Blogging Since: April 14, 2008
Venue: The Rivers Club
About Me: Being a transplant from sunny south Florida I am learning to live with all four seasons while playing with our cat collective, line dancing, and doing a ton of DIY projects for our wedding (seriously, like a thousand)!
The Food
May 13th, 2008 @ 5:14 pm by Miss Pineapple
One of the main reasons we chose our venue, was because of the food. We had never eaten there ourselves, but we had heard wonderful things! Mr. Pineapple took me to the Rivers Club for Valentine’s day giving us our first official taste and we were thrilled.A couple weeks ago Mr. Pineapple’s father and step-mother traveled to the big city to join us for our menu tasting.
First up: hors d’oeuvres
Miniature crabcake with chipotle aioli
Clockwise: mediterranean sausage stuffed mushrooms, roast tenderloin canape, five spice sea scallops wrapped in bacon and bbq duck wrapped in bacon
Main Courses:
Pecan and roasted shallot stuffed chicken with orange frangelico cream
Scallion and shrimp crusted salmon
Truffle scented chicken breast with wild mushroom marsala sauce
Parmesan grouper with smoked tomato buerre blanc
Choosing the “winners” was a lot easier than we expected it to be, all four of us were nearly unanimous on all counts. Each of us kept score on a print out of the menu. We decided to go with raspberry brie canapes (which I scarfed down before talking a photo), the sea scallops, crabcakes and mushrooms. For the main courses; the pecan stuffed chicken, the shrimp crusted salmon and a vegetarian dish that we have not tasted.
We were completely stuffed and excited after our tasting, everything was very yummy. So far this has been one of the wedding tasks that was purely fun. It was also great getting some of the future in-laws involved, something we aren’t able to do often.
What has been one of your most “fun” wedding tasks?
13 Responses to “The Food”
FI and I had a great time at the cake tasting and the meeting/tasting with the caterer. Anything involving food is always a good time:)
Also, our venue has a Sweetheart Tasting every Valentine’s weekend for couples who will wed there. We had a great time, ate great food and loved seeing our vendors in action!
I forgot to mention…your food choices look yummy and the selections you made sound delish!
Oh my! Miss Lovebird took the words right outta my mouth haha! Bacon anything is great 
haha… that bacon wrapped duck looks really good, but I guess it wasn’ that great since it wasn’t selected . I also love brie… mmmmm.
you had me at ‘wrapped in bacon’.
That all looks so YUMMERS! Man, I’m hungry now.
All of that looks soooooo tasty!
They look and sound delicious!
looks good!
why weren’t you able to sample the vegetarian food?
@Leticia: honestly we didn’t even think to ask ahead of time. We were more wrapped up in which of the hors d’oeuvres we would like to try. Based on what we did taste I have no doubt the vegetarian option will also be delicious.
Glad to hear it went so well. Can’t wait to do our tasting!
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