The cod dish had zucchini at the bottom, I think, and a miso-based broth/sauce. The pasta was squid-ink noodles.
I don't think they added bacon to the duck, I think the chef treated the duck like it was bacon. (I.e. instead of using fatty pork belly, he coaxed the fatty duck along the same path by adding the crispy duck skin, smoking it, etc.)
The beef dish had three kinds of beef, actually. The waiter mentioned it was the beef, beef, and beef dish. The marinade/dressing for the wintergreen salad in the middle was made from beef bone marrow. The parmesan custard was pretty impressive.
(The descriptions for the dishes are kind of all third-hand. The chef was making these up as he went, so there was no printed menu. We had to rely on what the waiter said about each dish. In turn, the waiter had to rely on what the chef wrote down as the description of the dish. The waiter remarked it was terribly hard to read the chef's handwriting at times, so... Presumably, if the chef wrote everything down as he was improvising, and the waiter read the notes correctly, and we heard what the waiter said correctly, then to the extent I remember things, we know what the dishes were.)
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Date: 2014-11-02 07:33 pm (UTC)I don't think they added bacon to the duck, I think the chef treated the duck like it was bacon. (I.e. instead of using fatty pork belly, he coaxed the fatty duck along the same path by adding the crispy duck skin, smoking it, etc.)
The beef dish had three kinds of beef, actually. The waiter mentioned it was the beef, beef, and beef dish. The marinade/dressing for the wintergreen salad in the middle was made from beef bone marrow. The parmesan custard was pretty impressive.
(The descriptions for the dishes are kind of all third-hand. The chef was making these up as he went, so there was no printed menu. We had to rely on what the waiter said about each dish. In turn, the waiter had to rely on what the chef wrote down as the description of the dish. The waiter remarked it was terribly hard to read the chef's handwriting at times, so... Presumably, if the chef wrote everything down as he was improvising, and the waiter read the notes correctly, and we heard what the waiter said correctly, then to the extent I remember things, we know what the dishes were.)