To finish, a fresh peach tart successfully cobbles fresh fruit in an almondy cake with a berry ripple fromage blanc sorbet (£6), and cheese (£8) brings a buttery pool of epoisses and decent slabs of nutty Ossau Vielle and citrussy Coupole chevre.
A summer fruit cobbler is offered for dessert.
Desserts include caramelized banana tart, fruit cobbler a la mode, and molten chocolate cake.
That was clear from the fruit cobbler prominently displayed as a special one day last month.
The fruit cobbler, which changes seasonally but is always good, is more of a crisp, with a rumpled, crunchy top.
The special is $75 and includes a salad or soup, a whole duck that's been roasted with seasonal vegetables, and a fruit cobbler for dessert.
But the Italian cheesecake was dense and dry, and a mixed fruit cobbler (actually a crisp) was tongue-burning hot, presumably from microwaving.
We cause a minor furore by asking for a mixed fruit cobbler we see on an adjacent table – it's an exclusive feature of the senior (elderly) menu.
In the context of a historic inn, I would have preferred a humble fruit cobbler or a slice of layer cake.
IT'S not unusual for a fruit cobbler to be mistaken for a crumble, or a crumble for a crisp, the jammy identity of one bubbling over into the next.
Not a lot happens, in the usual sense of movie action, in "Carnage," Roman Polanski's swift and spry adaptation of Yasmina Reza's play: voices are raised; whiskey is drunk; leftover fruit cobbler is consumed and (spoiler alert!) vomited.
