after-dinner bang after a few amuse bouches at kato.
angler reserve caviar
combine this with the warm, soft, slightly sweet, buttery banana pancake and banana butter for a perfectly balanced, decadent, and delicious baby fish taco @TheCookie, @Chowseeker1999, @Bookwich, @attran99
kusshi (vancouver island, bc), shigoku (willapa bay, wa), pacific gold (morro bay, ca), grassy bar (morro bay, ca)
excellent oysters and the smoky, sweet embered tomato cocktail sauce was the best i’ve ever had.
It’s an impressive wine list. Helps them with Michelin and Pellegrino.Page count is bumped up by a lot of white space, e.g. page 73 has only three wines on it. Anyone who’s daunted by the selection can talk with one of their highly trained somms.
The first time I went I was by myself so looked through the whole book out of curiosity. Typically with a big list I’ll skim some sections that interest me looking for the best values.
Nice wine list. Lots of empty space on pages though. I did not get far past the whites section.
Some anomalies:
Trimbach Clos Ste. Hune 2007 for $275 is either a typo or a steal because it retails for about that much.
Didier Dagueneau 2010 for $225 - strange listing as they produce 3 or 4 different Pouilly Fume wines and the price can vary depending on the cuvee.
The list appears broad but not very deep, hence lots of blank space on nearly every page. Some nice white burgundy options as well as a few sub-$100 bottles that I would imagine work well with their food.
Hope the have a helpful somm there to navigate.
I think Mark Bright likes to put a few special values on the list for people savvy enough to recognize them. Could be they got a good deal from a distributor closing out that vintage.
I think they always have at least one somm on the floor and more on busy nights.
Yes
Wondeful
Had it twice now
IMHO caviar really needs nothing to be enjoyed immensely, and many of the things (the collective) “we” do are not really of any help to it (raw onion for example totally mystifies me)
But this works really well
The only way to score a seat is to request an invitation online at skenesplace.com. Skenes said he will “filter through it to some degree reasonably” to select the diners.
Damn! $800 per person is too rich for my blood. But I’m going to live vicariously through the any FTCers who are willing to bite and share their experience.
$800 includes beverage pairing and a portion goes towards charities and supporting victims of the California fires.
I’m guessing if you’re at least a friend of the friend of the chef, you could possibly bring your own aged Grand Cru’s or that amazing unicorn Junmai Daiginjo from Wing Hop Fung’s ground floor cellar and pop them with no additional fees.
@TheCookie, @Chowseeker1999, @Bookwich, @attran99
