Travail - rooftop patio cantina - August 2020

Dining out in COVID times is certainly a different experience. We decided to give Travail another try in late August. Their new location was supposed to open right around the time COVID hit. In the beginning months they were doing make at home meals, groceries for your pantry and also carry out from Pig Ate MyPizza. They were doing dining on their rooftop patio with a cantina theme. It sounded interesting, so we booked reservations. We also added their alcoholic beverage pairing with the meal. 

I decided to just take photos and not take notes again. There is a picture at the end with all of the menu items and their descriptions. 

In additional to the two desserts we were served we got a box of sweets to take home. 

Here's the full menu items and descriptions. 

We had a great evening on the patio and enjoyed ourselves a lot. They even had a band performing throughout the meal. Travail took all of the expected COVID precautions and we felt very safe dining there. We would certainly go back and we look forward to checking out their indoor dining room once that is fully open. 

Travail
4134 Hubbard Ave N
Robbinsdale, MN 55422
(763) 535-1131
https://www.travailkitchen.com

Travail with beverage pairing July 2018

John and I wet back to Travail to celebrate his birthday in July. I don't have much to say that I haven't said in past posts, but I wanted to share the photos of the courses. We also did the somewhat new alcoholic beverage pairings with our meal, so those photos are mixed in as well. It was interesting to go during the summer time as many seasonal ingredients were used it seemed like. We loved the food and the overall experience just as much as we have before. It is always a fun environment and delicious food unlike anywhere else.

Travail
4124 W Broadway Ave
Robbinsdale, MN 55422
(763) 535-1131
www.facebook.com/Travailkitchen

Travail

John and I went to Travail for our December holiday meal this year. I've been a couple times, but he had never visited and I was quite sure he would enjoy it once I got him in the door.

We were seated at the rail facing the kitchen so we had a great view of everything being prepared. It is like a front row seat at the theater as it is great fun to watch everything going on.

 table side grill for sausage

 Compressed apple, thyme, sugar, apple gel

 Royale Hawaiian

 oyster with cucumber, chicken sushi, lemon, ham

 gougere (savory bread), parsnip, escargot, chicken stock, lemon

 foie gras with smoked foie, apricot, grapefruit, salmon tartare. The salmon was under the wood bowl. 

 soup with delicate squash, smoked ham hock, herbs, brown butter

 gnocchi, potato broth, truffle

 chicken thigh, bulgur wheat, herbs

 grapefruit ice/sorbet

 Back to Kali

 salmon with root vegetable, auguachile, chorizo

 blood sausage, celeriac broth, apple

 pork belly, fig char slu, pickled black walnut

 salmon belly, chicken dash, herbs, shitake

 leek, sun choke, button mushroom, sage

 ribeye, beef fat vinegarette, chermoula, whipped potatoes

 apricot slushie 

 rib with fresno vinegar

 roasted chicken, saffron sauce, pan roasted gnocchi 

 danish, pecan chocolate mousse, truffle

 frozen yogurt dippin dots with cake

chocolate cake

I think I may have missed a couple courses, things come pretty fast sometimes and one course we got up and food was put on your hand. I think that was agnolotti, chicken liver, Tasmanian honey, black truffle and rutabaga. The only reason I have all the details I do is because they gave you a menu with the bill at the end with details on everything, which I greatly appreciated, as I don't like to take notes, I want to enjoy the experience.

We had a really fun time and John enjoyed it a lot as well. The atmosphere is very festive and fun. It is a lot of food and I was totally stuffed at the end even though it seemed like I never ate that much at one time, it adds up quickly. It is expensive, but worth every dime. It would probably cost far far more anywhere else anyway for this type of food.


Travail
4124 W Broadway Ave
Robbinsdale, MN 55422
(763) 535-1131
www.facebook.com/Travailkitchen