Col Legno's meat courses are simply prepared and satisfying.
Main meat courses are often served with vegetables, along with potatoes, rice or pasta.
Any meat course is $8 with one side, $9 with two sides.
Not until the meat course was under way did he discover that he had entered the wrong house, and by that time it didn't seem worth changing so he stayed and had an unusually merry evening.
"We find skills and meat-based courses are very popular with men in general and with retired men in particular," said Claire Lanza, head chef at the company's cookery school in Salisbury.
The meat, of course, are the days of the festival itself which can be traversed in a truly immersive experience complete with videos and music.
Much as I feel you can never go very wrong making a chocolate dessert, after a meat course there is just too much brown around.
The main courses are mostly meat dishes, and they are fine, like moist, savory meatloaf, flavorful grilled salmon and fried chicken.
Main courses are where Meat Mission finds its calling, at least in the case of the bacon cheeseburger, wedging a juicy, inch-thick patty of medium-rare ground beef, tangy melted Cheddar and thick slices of smoky bacon into a firm but absorbent bun.
Whole chickens, ducks and large meat roasts, of course, are out.
