Tag: California
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Caviar, Martinis
This was a replacement shipment of golden osetra caviar from Marshallberg Farm.
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Le Fantastique
Tonight’s dinner was at Le Fantastique, a new restaurant that opened up a few months ago, with French and Japanese influences. They boast a McIntosh audio system and a turntable to play vinyl which of course interested me. We had an early reservation (which we always prefer) and we were in fact the first diners…
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Birch & Rye
This week’s dinner was at the newest restaurant in our neighborhood. We were very happy to see this open up on the previous location for Mahila and Contigo before that. Cocktails were very tasty utilizing vodka infusions. We, of course, went for the caviar service with imported Russian caviar paired with the horseradish infused vodka.…
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Cotogna
Spoiler – this was a great meal esp. for the money. This is a sister restaurant to Quince, which is one of our favorite restaurants. It was as difficult to get a reservation here as at Quince. Every time we’ve dined at Quince we’ve always wondered about Cotogna next door which looked great. We finally…
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Wagyu, Truffle
Since we were in the Design District for brunch at Dumpling Time, we decided to just buy some meat at the Butcher Shop. This is part of Niku Steakhouse (just received one Michelin star. We ate there pre-pandemic. Recommended!). We bought some A5 Kobe wagyu, NY strip. I wasn’t sure what was going to be…
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Dumpling Time
Sunday brunch at Dumpling Time. Lamb dumplings with five spice, lobster siu mai, chicken gyoza, seared char sui bao, and pork XLB. We’re all so full!!
