Secret Supper Redux

A few months ago, my friend Jennifer and I went to the Baltimore Secret Supper.  The premise is this - you pay ahead for a 4 course dinner with wine pairings, then you don't actually find out what restaurant you'll be eating in until the night of the dinner.  The last time we fortunate enough to get to try Aggio by Bryan Voltaggio.  While the entire meal wasn't perfect, there were definitely some highs about it.  

Tonight's dinner was held at Cunningham's in Towson, which was already a bit of a downer because Towson is so much farther than downtown Baltimore. I'd like to say the meal made up for it, but it really didn't.  Nothing seemed to go together at all.  And while I'm sure others enjoyed the food, I wasn't a fan of the mish-mash menu filled with ingredients that weren't my cup of tea.  Also, seeing as I wasn't drinking the wine, I really wasn't getting anything out of the evening at all.  Even the service wasn't up to par with Aggio.  

It was a huge restaurant so I can understand being a little slow, but after sitting down at 7:15 we didn't receive the first course until after 8:00. That meant we didn't get to finish the dessert course until well after 9:00.  At Aggio I was home by 9:00. In the end, Jennifer and I had a nice evening chatting, but the next time we've decided to just try a restaurant we've been wanting to try instead of waiting to win the foodie bingo.

* As you can see, clearly I'm no foodie photographer.