Eight of us went to brunch at Ulysses Folk House on Stone Street last Sunday after hearing that they have a $20 all-you-can-eat buffet, complete with raw oysters, make-your-own omelets, and pastries from Financier. Your 20 bucks will also get you a drink. I love buffets, which is probably not a good thing.
We ate a lot, but did you expect any less? Except that not only did we eat a lot, we gorged ourselves on Financier pastries. Yeah, the pastries were probably leftover from the week, but gosh they were tasty. I think pastries need little commentary. So I'll just blind you with a parade of sweets.
This was tasty. The ravage of time did not negatively affect the tart crust too much. I think it would have been flakier if fresher. I love the plums.
Forgot what this was. I remember being eh about it. It wasn't bad, just left no impressions on me.
Some sort of passion fruit mousse cake. It was good, tart and creamy. Not too heavy.
This was either a very dense almond croissant or some sort of danish. It suffered from slight staleness. I think it would have been delicious freshly baked and flaky. The almond paste inside was yummy.
The apple galette was also kind of stale. I think next to we go, we should stick to non-tart/flaky crust desserts since the poor things age much faster than the other stuff. That said, my favorite dessert was the napoleon (which I devoured before taking a picture, of course). Maybe it was stale too but the tasty tasty cream distracted me.
Remains of a chocolate cake. I really like this. Moist, chocolaty without being too sweet.
Giant hazelnut macaron. No really, it was ginormous, about the size of my palm. It was good. Still chewy. I hate nothing more than a dry macaron. I did not hate this. nom nom.
Behind the hazelnut satellite dish, there are some Guinness cheese chunks and a wedge of cheddar. Part of the buffet. And no, we did not eat the macaron with the cheeses. I do not endorse that.
I have no idea what this was called but it was awesome. The small bar on top is a creamy rich truffle. The bottom was some sort of mousse cake thing on top of a wafer cookie, covered in dark chocolate. How can that be bad?
We ate all that plus some other pastries that I forgot to photograph. And 2 hours later, we all crashed like 5 year olds after trick-or-treating.
To cleanse our taste buds in between the tarts and cakes, we also ate plates of salty foods. I was a huge fan of their omelet. Call me uncouth, but I prefer flat, slightly fried omelets over the perfect fluffy French kind. You can stuff a bunch of stuff into you omelet. Because I can, so I did.
I also ate a bunch of raw oysters and clams. They were fine. Can't complain for $20.
I also liked their veggies (escaroles and broccoli) and corn beef (yum!). I wasn't too impressed by the sausages and didn't try the bacon. Other than that, they also had eggs benedict (seemed pretty good for a buffet, the eggs were runny), pancakes, french toast, roast turkey, fruit, etc. It was a good spread for the price. I'd go back, especially when I start missing Vegas buffets.
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yum! i can't believe you missed a picture of the napoleon, that is my favorite. oh well. next time come to stone street for harry's cafe saturday brunch -- all you can drink champagne cocktails. :)
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