Waterfall Nymph I'm the only sour cherry on the fruit stand.
Cyrus has gotten a lot of publicity since we were there all year ago – 2 stars in the Michelin Guide that came out, 4 stars from the SF Chronicle and so on. Probably would have been much harder to get reservations had it not been a Monday night!
We did the tasting menu again – it’s 7 courses that the chef decides each night and you don’t know what you’re going to get before it arirves at the table which adds to the fun and the celebration.
We also did the wine pairings with all of the courses except for the desert which is wonderful too. It’s 1/2 glass of wine with each course and this time we ate slowly enough and denied ourselves the cocktail beforehand so we were able to drive home.
It’s a beautiful restaurant with amazing service but much more personable than at French Laundry – people are more chatty and all.
They print you out a copy of the menu to take with you so here’s what we had (skipping some of the details because, you know, I don’t want to type all night)
- Steak slice wrapped around a quail’s egg, caviar, and bone marrow crisps Champagne
- Chorizo coated scallop and clams Sherry
- Rabbit with onions and mushrooms and stuffed baby artichoke Volnay
- Foie Gras with Duck Cannelloni Rioia Cranza
- Veal with morels and white asparagus Pinot Noir
- Cheese course We shared the wine – but I don’t know what it was
- Desserts – 2 different ones – Rice cream sandwich with yamamomo gelee and hibiscus chips AND caramel soup with kettle corn sorbet and chocolate
plus a couple of treats along the way: amuse bouche, angel food cake flavored soda, rosemary and raspberry sorbet lollipop.
I know – that’s a lot of un-pc meat products and so on. And I hardly eat meat at all in my day to day life – chicken maybe once a week. But I’ve pretty much given in to the idea that when one of the best chefs in the nation is makign something, you eat it.
And it was amazing.
