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From Saturday's Globe and Mail

November 3, 2006 at 6:05 PM EST

Passed hors d'oeuvre 7:30-8:30 p.m.

Prawn cocktail

Caramelized onion tart with St. Jorge cheese and fresh herbs

Shu mui dumplings with soya dip Polenta fries with spicy tomato sauce Gougères (cheese puffs) with warm apple compote

Wine Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2005 (and a choice of cocktails)

First course 8:45 p.m.

Butternut squash soup, with spiced crème fraîche

Wine Keegan Chardonnay 2003, from Judith Tatar's cellar

Main course 9:15 p.m.

Choice of: pan-seared halibut or braised beef short ribs

Garlic smashed potatoes and pan-roasted fall vegetables

Wine Keegan Chardonnay or Domaine Santa Duc Gigondas 2003

Dessert 10:30 p.m.

Chocolate layer birthday cake with fruit coulis

Roasted marshmallow ice cream from Greg's Ice Cream, Toronto, 416-962-4734

Chocolate truffles from J.S. Bonbons, 416-920-0274

Biscotti and Illy decaffeinated coffee

Wine Castellare San Niccolo Vin Santo 1998

A classic chocolate layer cake with mocha butter-cream frosting topped with a chocolate fondant painting of the birthday boy on the cover of Vanity Fair, by custom cake decorator Linda Morganstein of Once Upon a Cake.

“I do a lot of scale models of buildings in chocolate,” Morganstein says. “I did the Princess of Wales Theatre for the opening in such detail that you could see right inside. When they brought the cake onstage, there was applause.”

Catered by Liza Hardoon, To Go, 416-921-1717 (dinners $60 to $200 a person).

Cakes from $500, www.onceuponacake.ca, 416-781-8170.

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