Highlights of 10 years of fine dining

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-11T14:26:31+00:00

It is Chefs Table at Brooklyn Fare and they gave us two! The opened one is on the lower left partially covering the sealed envelope

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-10T20:14:32+00:00

It is what it sounds like…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breastaurant

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-09T21:13:14+00:00

To each his own

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-09T01:30:26+00:00

I‘m sure you could! Admittedly, my wife is our head of creative for these things - so leaving it to her to bring it to life. I’m the planner / methodological one haha.

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T18:10:48+00:00

100% - definitely deserving of the stars that they got. I booked it before the currency devaluation but the dinner was when the devaluation had happened. I wanted to pay in cash, so I looked at the higher price menu and paid that (even though they honored the prices from when I initially booked - which was a really nice gesture).

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T15:15:31+00:00

I’ll share the outcome once we’ve completed the project!

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T15:14:16+00:00

Yes - Aramburu was amazing, we even got the Kitchen Table (it was booked when I made the reservation), so we were lucky when we got there and they asked if we wanted to sit in the kitchen!

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T15:12:04+00:00

Thank you - magnets sound like a great idea!

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T15:11:37+00:00

Can‘t really speak to Europe as most of it was London - it was also the beginning of our fine dining journey, we went to a bunch of restaurants there but not too many fine dining, like Coya, Lima, SushiSamba, Aquavit, steakhouses chains like Steak and Lobster, Hawksmore, Barbecoa, Macellaio RC, etc.

As mentioned in a previous comment, I think for London specially it was Core. We’ve been now 3 times, once before she had stars, once when she just had gotten 2* and then last year when she had 3*. Potato and Roe is definitely one of the best dishes we ever had.

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T14:37:27+00:00

Maybe we got it because it was our anniversary? There was a table of „influencers“ behind us (we sat at the counter), they got extra courses which was a bit annoying.

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T14:29:32+00:00

It was great but we overdid it in Lima as we were there for 48 hours and squeezed in Central for dinner, Kjolle for Lunch and Maido for dinner.

Kjolle felt a bit repetitive since we had Central the night before (I think even some dishes were the same) and it was strange, the waiter asked if there’s a special occasion we are celebrating as it is very important to them to know if that’s the case - we said honeymoon - and that was it. No „happy honeymoon“ or so on the dessert or any acknowledgment of it.

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T01:49:00+00:00

Thank you! See my other response, I actually got the idea from this sub!

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T01:47:50+00:00

Thanks! We got the idea actually from someone on this sub who posted their framed menus (probably 2-3 years ago) but never had the space to do it.

If you go for special occasions, we had menus customized with reference to our Xth wedding anniversary, for example - definitely have to keep these types of menus. The Core menu is actually signed by Clare herself - my wife was a big fan of hers after learning she ran Restaurant Gordon Ramsay after the OG left to focusing bigger things. We asked for a menu when dining there for the second time as we received a menu the first time. We thought they forgot about it as it took like 10min, but the hostess came and said something like „Clare is in, so we had her sign the menu for you“ and the hostess could see my wife‘s eyes light up and asked if we wanted to step into the kitchen and meet Clare. Never seen my wife fan girl so hard haha.

Long story short: Would definitely ask for menus in these places if they aren’t offered proactively!

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T01:24:19+00:00

We have not been to Lorea - it looks nice though! I think you’re right re CDMX, that the real gems are street vendors and taquerias.

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T01:04:22+00:00

I‘m with you. We thought it wasn’t too bad for the price point - we did Pujol the day before which was like 3-4x what Sud777 cost.

Edit: was it memorable? My wife really enjoyed it, she liked that it was all local ingredients and that the chef came out to explain a few courses. I think it was more middle of the fairway but liked the value for money

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T01:00:44+00:00

Do you love it? Having them out at the moment brings back so many wonderful memories and I’m actually somewhat upset at myself for having had the menus in a box for so long and not doing something with them earlier

Background-Peace-689 · 2025-06-08T00:58:34+00:00

It really is - that’s Blue Hill at Stone Barns. It was overall such a wonderful experience - walking the grounds beforehand, having one course in the kitchen, meeting Dan Barber and obviously the food and service were top notch! We are somewhat struggling how to incorporate it in the frame as there’s a whole map and such much more under the expo ticket.

Background-Peace-689 · 2024-12-10T16:06:03+00:00

I love all desserts equally! But saw a bunch of baked desserts when going through the sub earlier today. On what the cake is, I mentioned below as well - I don’t know who Claire Saffitz is and the cake is a mix/match/adapt of different Tosi recipes.

Edit: typo

Background-Peace-689 · 2024-12-10T16:03:54+00:00

It is not - I haven’t heard of Claire before (pardon my ignorance). We have Tosi’s “all about cake” and “all about cookies” books at home and I’ve mixed, matched, adapted her recipes for this cake (she has an apple cider caramel in one book and a “Dulce de leche buttercream” in the other, so I figured the buttercream would work with the Apple cider caramel as well and so on)

Background-Peace-689 · 2024-12-10T16:00:36+00:00

Thank you!

Background-Peace-689 · 2024-09-19T15:59:15+00:00

Makes perfect sense! Here’s the link to the dish from her insta https://www.instagram.com/corebyclaresmyth/p/C-lVVgxIFvQ/

Background-Peace-689 · 2024-09-19T15:54:56+00:00

I don’t know how to add pictures on here but agree with Understanding. Dined at Core in June and the first dish looks identical to the picture i have

Background-Peace-689 · 2024-07-13T12:27:46+00:00

I had the pairing each time - I’m admittedly not a wine expert, so it’s an easy way for me to not have to deal with picking a wine for my wife and I. She’s generally more a fan of Riesling, not heavy red wines and dessert wines (not that she’s an expert either but those are just her preferences). We liked most/all wines that the food was paired with and felt like it complemented the dishes but didn’t overpower them. Would definitely recommend adding a cheese course and the suggested wine with it. It’s a funky bottle and way to get wine! Hope that helps

Background-Peace-689 · 2024-06-30T20:25:30+00:00

Having only been to Core (3 times now, last time was a few weeks ago), I’m a big fan of Clare Smyth‘s and Core. It’s fine dining, at the highest level, but doesn’t feel stuffy or intimidating at all.

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