Day 21: Our 1st “The Chef’s Table”

We haven’t taken advantage of The Chef’s Table at all - shame on us. This is a dinning experience even Chef Ramsey would have a hard time creating - a five course adventure into an array of flavor we have never tasted before. This was a new journey for the two of us.

The Chef’s Table has various themes - and serves them for three evenings - tonight was “Asian Panorama”. We are now going to get a list of the themes to make sure we experience each of them.

While each of entree’s stood on their own as magnificent - it is the wine pairings (4 different wines) that complete each entree step. You take a bite of the food and then a sip of the chosen wine for that entree and the flavor mixture is completed as it melts pleasantly on your palette. I think the days of washing food down with a Coke are over for us,

A meal like this is a journey - an experience - with flavor footprints along the way. A welcoming Japanese tea - followed by Amuse Bouche of Chilled King Crab - accompanied by “Ponte Prosecco Trevino Spumante Millesimato, from Glera Veneto, Italy. This is the start of our journey.

Our first course is Shanghai’s style Lobster & Chicken Shu Mai - accompanied by Chateau Landereau Entre-deuce-Mers Semillion, Sauvignon. Blanc, Muscadelle Bordeaux’s, France. These wine to food pairings are so perfect.

Peking Duck with a crispy skin, Mandarin pancake, in hoisin sauce, accompanied by Honoro Vera, Garnacha from Calatayud, Spain. I have had duck in the past, this duck was very tender and the mixture of flavor along with the wine really made for a premier main course.

Desert was an ‘Asian Trilogy’ of spring roll, crème brûlée & cheesecake. Donna had a lactose free cherry chocolate cake which she throughly enjoyed. The accompanying wine pairing was Torrevento Dulcis in Fundo, Moscato Reale do Trani Puglia, Italy.

Donna and I are not wine aficionado’s by any means - we know when we taste something if we like it or not. This evening continue to develop our palettes for both food and wine.Read more