Tasting for Chris Galzin, summer 2009

Heres were it all begins.....


Plates and service wear used that night


Activa RM bound Yellow Fin Tuna, and Tasmanian Trout (test run)


Checkered Sushi

Yellow fin tuna, Tasmanian Trout, sesame rice, nori, fresh wasabi, salmon roe, lemongrass vinaigrette, crystalized ginger


Clarified Miso soup


Miso soup

Clarified Miso soup poured table side, tofu, shitake mushrooms, scallions, tobiko roe, sesame seeds, sesame noodles squeezed table side


sesame noodles squeezed table side


Caw Caw Creek American prochuttio


Good times!


BBQ pork

Sweet baby rays glazed pork belly, BBQ beans, charred piquio pepper puree, deep fried corn bread (creamy inside), and Caw Caw Creek crispy American prochuttio


Smoked scallop

Celery root puree, sea beans, wild mushroom ravioli, black garlic, pickled cucumber, chile and saffron powder, fresh truffles, and "Smoke"


Adding hickory smoke


The glass is removed table side to bring the presents of smoke


Popping ginger

Pickled ginger espuma, coconut and ginger sorbet, fizzy, tropical fruit pop rocks


Breaking down some Escolar


Vacuum packing Escolar to be sous-vide


Sous-vide Escolar

Roasted tomatoes, lemon bur blanc, fresh fava beans, salsafy, lemongrass oil, marinated mushrooms, 3 month cured meyer lemon

Wagyu cheeks and its braising vegetables


Wagyu cheeks

Braised Wagyu beef cheeks, yukon potato puree, baby carrots, baby turnips, roasted pearl onions, micro celery

Beer, bacon and waffles

Maple saburo beer gelato, toasted maple foam, liquid waffle, sweet ginger root, crispy waffles, and bacon cooked in maple syrup


Coconut pan pur-due

Lime foam, guava sorbet, micro mint, re hydrated basil seeds, and powdered sugar


After dinner mint (pre-gelato)

After dinner mint

Thin mint gelato, pliable white chocolate, micro mint, chocolate malt-dex powder, thin mint crunch, served with a malted thin mint milk shake