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August 28, 2006

i want dinner…. waaaaaaaaaa….

Filed under: food, neighborhood, travel — matthew @ 10:20 pm
Downstairs Dinner Menus:
August 28–September 2, 2006

Monday, August 28 $85 Chez Panisse Thirty-Fifth Birthday Menu
An apéritif
Hors d’oeuvre à la provençale
Fig salad with mint and crème fraîche
La grande bouillabaisse
Garden lettuces and goat cheeses
Summer fruit basket and bonbons Chez Panisse

Tuesday, August 29 $65
Chopped salad with heirloom tomatoes, bacon, and farm egg
Pan-fried local petrale sole with almonds and parsley
Grilled Wolfe Ranch quail with succotash and white corn polenta
Flavor King pluot tart with mascarpone creamWednesday, August 30 $65
Green bean, shell bean, and cherry tomato salad with basil and aïoli
Fideus pasta with roasted peppers and local squid
Grilled James Ranch lamb rack, loin, and leg with eggplant tian and olive sauce
Summer berry sherbet coupe with Champagne granita

Thursday, August 31 $65
Tuna carpaccio with capers and anchovy
Chanterelle mushroom ravioli in brodo
Spit-roasted Laughing Stock Farm pork loin with shell beans and fried rosemary
Black Mission fig and raspberry crostata with Marsala-fig ice cream

Friday, September 1 $85
An apéritif
Local halibut tartare with green beans, cucumbers, and avocado
Squash blossom risotto with summer truffles
Grilled Paine Farm squab with roasted figs, squab liver toast, and garden lettuces
Middleton Gardens raspberry soufflé

Saturday, September 2 $85
An apéritif
Heirloom tomato salad with torpedo onion rings
Roasted red pepper soup with lobster soufflé
Grilled Sonoma County Liberty duck breast with flat beans, star anise, and braised bacon
Blackberry ice cream crêpes with O’Henry peaches
Service charge: 17 percent Sales tax: 8 3/4 percent
Corkage: $20 per bottle, limit two (750 ml.) per table.
1517 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California 94709
Reservations: (510) 548-5525
Other fish varieties may have to be substituted.

August 10, 2006

and *another* good meal

Filed under: food — matthew @ 1:28 am

tonight was the occasion of our fourth wednesday night dinner… the theme being vegetables and readings- i added a pair of lovely yellowtail snapper to the vegetables, and here’s what came of the readings…

1. ode to clouds – pablo neruda – english

2. bushs twentieth hundred days – shouts and murmurs, new yorker

3. stock traders handbook, real estate remix – 1923

4. veronika kills herself – pablo coelho -
5. ode to the night – pablo neruda – bilingual

6. two poems – chelsea yarrow gould – read by the author

7. ode to clouds – pablo neruda -espanol

all in all, an exquisitely eclectic selection to hear, with a pablo neruda refrain. just couldn’t help ourselves.

i shall post a picture, but not now….

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