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NYC: Per Se (Aug. 2012): Dinner with Josh and Monty
Authors: Victor and Monty
Restaurant: Per Se
Exec Chef: Thomas Keller
Chef de Cuisine: Eli Kaimeh
Date: August 27, 2012
Unfortunately, the food pics are kind of bad. My iPhone doesn’t take very good pics at night :(.
Monte: This meal was ridiculously good.
NYC: Atera (Aug. 2012)
Authors: Victor and Monty
Restaurant: Atera
Chef: Matt Lightner
Date: August 17, 2012
October 2, 2013, edit:
CONGRATS TO ATERA AND MATT LIGHTNER ON GETTING TWO MICHELIN STARS IN THE 2013 MICHELIN GUIDE!
Notes:
-This is a chef’s-table-style restaurant.
-There’s a huge emphasis on foraging. They work with many foragers, and one of them is Evan Strusinski, who’s a foraging superstar.
-The chef worked at Noma and Mugaritz before!
-You can only get the tasting menu, which lasts around two-and-a-half to three hours. (Monte: I wonder if they’ll raise the cost after the 2 stars award)
This was our view once we were seated.
NYC Kaiseki: Soto (Aug. 2012): Omakase
Author: Victor
Restaurant: Soto
Chef: Sotohiro Kosugi
Date: August 14, 2012
Notes:
-There are 17 non-sushi courses and 9 pieces of sushi (nigiri).
-I shall nickname this meal the “Uni Assault”. We had SO MUCH UNI. I guess it’s kind of my fault—in the beginning, the waitress asked me how much we liked uni, and I answered with, “We love it!” And… yeah. The pictures show how much uni we ended up getting.
-Chef Sotohiro has a HUGE temper hahahaha. We saw some J-raging going on today; there was one time where he raged LOUDLY and the entire restaurant just turned quiet. Apparently an employee messed up on something. He was pissssssed.
Monte
Victor
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