semiannual

10.20.2013

Summer 2013: Avenue B

Pittsburgh, PA

Sidebar #6

Food

Musings

Winter 2012: Restaurant Eugene

Atlanta, GA

Food

Musings

12.19.2009

Winter 2009: Quinones at Bacchanalia

Atlanta, GA

Food

1. Cheese straws
2. Puff pastry with herb & gruyere
3. A "shot" of lemon/celery cream soup, olive oil & onion relish, crispy pork chichorrones
4. Five breads: homemade sourdough, multi-grain, biscuit, rye/poppy, rustic white
5. Lightly cured hirami flounder with radish, fennel and shiso
6. Foie Gras terrine with spiced pear consummer and peanut caramel
7. A "shot" with oysters in a cauliflower soup with caviar and truffle
8. Buttery popovers
9. Loup de mer (fish) in a butter sauce with parsnip and pickled apples
10. Duck with kale, chanterelle mushrooms and bacon
11. Veal three ways: sweetbreads, loin, and braised cheek, served with a vegetable mix
12. Cheese course of carolina moon, vanilla poached apricots and brioche
13. Quinones egg nog and gingerbread man
14. Deconstructed Mississippi mud pie with coffee ice cream
15. Six small desserts: almond brittle, hazelnut meringue, pear drop shortbread, madeline topped with powdered sugar, fudge, and coconut macaroon

Musings

7.20.2009

Summer 2009: Restaurant Gary Danko

San Francisco, CA

Food

Musings

6.02.2009

Summer 2009: Ad Hoc

San Francisco, CA
Sidebar #4

Food ($49)

Dinner Menu for Monday, June 1

Endive & Arugula Salad
toasted marcona almonds
pickled haricot vert, sliced white peaches
k & j orchard apricot vinaigrette

Buttermilk Fried Chicken
braised collard greens
hobbs' bacon crumbles, parsley potatoes
biscuits with ortiz raspberry jam

Great Hill Dairy's Blue
roasted red peppers, brentwood corn
herbed croutons

Lemon Curd Cupcakes
citrus frosting

Musings

12.27.2008

Winter 2008: Shaun's

Atlanta, GA
Sidebar #3

www.shaunsrestaurant.com

Food
Appetizers: Chopped Liver East Village Style; Beignets

Entree: White shrimp and grits

Side: Pomme frittes in duck fat

Drinks: Mistral mimosa

Winter 2008: Aria

Atlanta, GA

www.aria-atl.com

Food ($191)
Appetizers: Warm Lobster Cocktail; Hudson Valley Foie Gras; Duck Ragout; Deconstructed Ravioli

Entrees: Zinfandel Braised Beef Short Rib; Georgia Wolfish, Lobster Risotto, Crisped Ginger

Dessert: Sorbet selection- mango, banana, grapefruit, lemon-lime, tangerine on meringue; Warmed Spiced gingerbread cake, honey frozen yogurt, lemon sauce

Wines: Reisling, Leonard Kreush Spatlese, Germany; Sauvignon Blanc, Two angels, High Valley

9.16.2008

Winter 2007: JOËL

Atlanta, GA
http://joelrestaurant.com/

Food
Appetizers: Jumbo Lump Crab Cake, Arugula and Frisée Salad, Cider Dressing; Seared Foie Gras, Roasted Quince, Lime Sauce

Entree: Daily Special - Sauteed Venison Tenderloin, Sweet Potatoes, Red Cabbage, Sauce Poivrade; Seared Diver Scallops, Risotto, Reggiano Parmesan, Zucchini, Chicken Jus

Sides: Anson Mill Grits

Dessert: Mango Pavlova, Exotic Sorbet; Chocolate-Pistachio Millefeuille Musings