Iron Chef Sighting!
Masaharu Morimoto is one of the original Iron Chefs and he has a restaurant in Chicago, NYC, and now Napa!! It just opened a couple weeks ago and Jes and I went last night. As soon as we walked into the restaurant, there he was! He was on the line with all the other chefs hard at work. So cool!
We opted for the Omakase tasting menu and were delighted with an 8-course meal. My favorites were the toro tartare that came on a bamboo platter with a dipping sauce and 6 little flavors to try with the tuna. It was so much fun to eat with a paddle and it was oh so tasty.
My other favorite was the foie gras chawanmushi topped with 2 slices of savory duck. I already LOVE chawanmushi and now they went ahead and added foie to it! Wowzers. The broth was light and flavorful and the rich foie/egg custard was hiding underneath. It also came with a tiny ball of wasabi on the side.
Everything was presented in such a classy and yet interesting way and the production of having 8 surprises arrive at you table was so much fun. He also has a bunch of really nice housewares in the front. Check out all these sake boxes and cups!
deedee
Sunday, August 8, 2010See? If you wanna rate some foie gras chawanmush, I will not challenge your collective opinions.
Johnny
Sunday, August 8, 2010wth is chawanmush?
beakatude
Sunday, August 8, 2010It’s chawanmushi. Here’s the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chawanmushi
We used to get it all the time in Irvine at Fukada.