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Is World's Best Restaurant Worth the 12-Month Wait?
Richard Vines, Bloomberg profiles Spain's El Celler De Can Roca, voted the world's best restaurant, where there's a full-year waiting list.
Doesn't look like food, to me. :) I'm such a bumpkin. :)
Here is a link that might be useful: El Celler de Can Roca Restaurant Review Video
There was a chart in the video with a few facts about the restaurant. Prices from E 200 a head - which is close to $300. They list the sound at 700 decibels. Is that a misprint?????? Does the decibel chart even go that high? That's louder than a Stones concert! :-) If it's not a misprint I personally would not spend that kind of money to damage my hearing. And forget about any conversation during the meal. The sound alone should knock one star off the rating.
Can a painting be worth $50 million dollars?
Yes, for some.
If you have the spare change, absolutely. That kind of eating is not for survival, it is for the experience. Actually, the price is not expensive for a 20 course tasting menu.
My only problem with that kind of restaurants is the incredible waste of good food. I think they throw away 80 percent of the food to get that one slice of perfect meat.
Teresa, the 700 decibel is nonsense. If you look at the design of the restaurant and the layout of the interior, you can see it is a very pleasant atmosphere.
The science of decibel goes logarithmic, not lineal : For each increase in 3 decibels, the power doubles. at 700 decibels, there will be a total global melt down.
Here is a link that might be useful: Nice!
That's why I wondered if it was a typo. Maybe it's 70 decibels which would be considered pleasant. Noise at the level of 700 really would make it an experience!
The chart also listed 50 seats and 30 chefs. I suppose they would need that many chefs for all the attention to detail.
One would hope if you had to wait a year for a reservation you would at least be seated promptly! :-)
I do like their little bonsai olive trees. Those are cute. What is that stuff on the rectangle plate that looks like the fishnet hanging in the stern of our boat? Doesn't look pleasant?
dcarch, I would guess that whatever foods are not used for presentation are used for some other purpose and/or sold to other restaurants. No business can afford that much waste. Plus, it would not be responsible. Maybe, they feed the staff with less than perfect food?
If I made a reservation for a year out you could just about be sure when the special day arrived - I'd want Chinese instead! lol
This post was edited by triciae on Fri, Jul 26, 13 at 9:55
I've often wondered how that many chefs in a kitchen can work together without running into each other or otherwise getting in each other's way.
Sometimes I think it would be great fun to go to a restaurant like that just once, for the experience, like Dcarch said, but I'd have to win the lottery to justify spending that kind of money on a meal, or experience, for that matter.
Eat at any slightly upscale restaurant and have a couple drinks and you can easily spend $100 per person. To think that for just three times that amount you can have a multi-multi course tasting menu at the "world's best restaurant" complete with paired wines which I'm sure aren't two buck chuck, I think it's an absolute bargain. Yes it's expensive, but not out of line with what people spend every day for many types of memories such as sporting events, theater, concerts, etc. I'd be game for a meal of a lifetime.
This post was edited by foodonastump on Fri, Jul 26, 13 at 12:15
Tricia - I just realized you questioned the wait, not the cost. I can't plan this weekend, let alone a year from now! I wonder if they lock you into a reservation somehow, financially. (Or if/how they could prevent people from selling their reservations - that could be quite a racket!). Either way, I can't imagine them having a hard time filling a table on short notice. Great way to take care of preferred customers!
When I was in Spain in 2011 I called El Cellar and asked about getting a reservation. They told me it would be about 9 months before anything was open. They found it funny that we wanted a reservation within two weeks. We ate at many outstanding restaurants during our stay, reflecting the rise to fame of Spanish gastronomy. Now that their economy has tanked, I don't know if the standards are still high.
El Bulli routinely opened bookings one year in advance and immediately sold every table. They could have done this twice or three times over. There are still people who lament that they never got to eat there.
If you couldn't make the reservation, I'm sure you could sell it. El Bulli reservations sometimes came up on ebay.
"---dcarch, I would guess that whatever foods are not used for presentation are used for some other purpose and/or sold to other restaurants. No business can afford that much waste. Plus, it would not be responsible. Maybe, they feed the staff with less than perfect food?--"
I don't know what they do with their wasted food. For restaurant of that class, food is 10%, and presentation is 90%. People pay lots of money not because of their food, which are very delicious. People pay to be excited visually by the gastronomic gymnastics, of the artistic creativity, and the cuisine theatrics.
Each creation, once designed, is to be made in exact precision. Any chef deviates from it will be fired on the stop.
The only way to do it is to throw away food that does not fit the design.
I hae issues with Modernist cuisine. One of the biggest of them is, THE CHEFS DON'T EAT THE FOOD THEY SELL YOU. This is one of the dirtiest little secrets in the Trophy Chef Sweepstakes. Only rarely do you run across an article here and there in which these famed chefs confess what they really eat.
So, for instance - Wylie Dufresne of WD-50 in NYC. Chefs like Chicago's Grant Achatz and San Francisco's Joshua Skenes all follow in his footsteps. Dufresne is famed for his exquisite Modernist/Molecular Gastronomy/whatever you want to call it these days.
Know what he eats? Land o'Lakes American Cheese. In big 5-lb blocks. Multiple blocks in WD-50's refrigerators. He eats it all day long. Has done so for years. Not Kraft, btw. Doesn't like Kraft's cheese, only LL. Such a snob (smile).
Atelier Crenn in San Francisco: the Bay Area's newest, and first female, Michelin two-star chef, Dominique Crenn. Her plates are works of edible art (check out Google Images). But at home? Quote from a Nov 2012 local paper article: "Her food at home is all about comfort. Roast chicken and whole fish Provencal are staples, nods to her native France that are usually accompanied by gorgeous California salads."
If a chef doesn't want to eat it, why should I want to, let alone pay for it? We have paid upwards of $200/pp - and we don't drink alcohol - and thought the food was totally worth it. But that's for food prepared by chefs with passion and love for what they're doing, like Perry Hoffman of Domaine Chandon's Etoile in Yountville, or Roland Passot's magnificent foie gras (when it was legal) at La Folie/San Francisco.
We don't like tasting menus. And we hate overly composed plates where we have to guess which wafer or curlicue or it-looks-like-a-rock is actually the kohlrabi, in heavy disguise. Because it's not great food, not really. It's pretentiousness, and in the end unsatisfying.
Dcarch - I don't know what they do with the food in your area, however, here in Minneapolis excess food, cooked or uncooked is picked up by Loaves & Fishes. It is distributed to soup kitchens to be eaten that day or the next. It's a great way for hotels to donate leftover banquet food as the health department does not allow the excess to be taken home by the guests. The businesses that donate are free of any liability for the food once it leaves their property.
It's a great resolution for both parties involved.
Back to the restaurant - I will be interested in hearing if you end up going tricia. And it will be interesting to see if the restaurant is still that much in demand a year from now.
Jkom - It doesn't surprise me one bit that chefs who spend countless hours a week fussing over intricate food would prefer simplicity in their off hours. As such I don't think that's a valid criticism of modernist cuisine. The American Cheese example is the extreme of that reaction - surely you're not suggesting that hunks of this "cheese product" are superior?
Like you, I'm not particularly impressed with finicky presentation - in fact more times than not I'm put off by it - and I personally find "tasting menues" a bit exhausting. That said, I'd jump on the chance to experience the best of the best for a once in a lifetime experience. From the "world's best restaurant" I would expect, and likely receive, absolute perfection in taste, true originality in preparation and presentation, utmost quality and variety of ingredients, and exceptional service. Definitely worth seeking out once in a blue moon, in my book. Maybe not Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but once in a blue moon.
BTW, another extraordinary restaurant Alinea, which will not take reservations the normal way. Waiting is also months:
"Alinea will be selling tickets rather than accepting traditional restaurant reservations beginning with the August 2012 bookings.------------------- Pricing for our Tasting menu will vary between $ 210 and $ 265 depending on the day of the week."
Wine is never included in the price.
Dcarch - Alinea... I seem to recall a dessert video you posted. Have you been there? Worth a quick flight if I've got points to burn and my wife will be there on business anyway?
Teresa - Speaking of business trips, my wife came home from a quick trip to Minneapolis last night. I'm don't recall which she mentioned first, the skywalk or the great food. And mind you all she had was lunches ordered in during meetings and a pub burger at night. "I'm ready to pack my bags and move."
Huh..."Other than that, I am not aware of any organization who takes excess food from restaurants here in NYC."
This organization has been around in NYC for over 30 years. I hear about it all the time on TV and from many chefs who work in the city.
Here is a link that might be useful: Food Organization
This post was edited by dixiedog_2007 on Fri, Jul 26, 13 at 21:41
FOAS - miles of skyways in downtown Minneapolis. Over 11 miles (69 blocks) in fact. It's always mind boggling when someone visits here for the first time. The Tribune did an article on the skyway system a couple years ago. The" city above the street"- or some such name.
We downtown workers measure things in skyways. Have you tried that new Chinese place? It's two skyways away at the entrance to the TCF tower. The word has also become a verb. Should we skyway it? Or walk outside? No one wants to take a job downtown if it's not on the skyway system.
Can you tell I love my skyways? The first skyway opened in 1962 and it was a huge event. My dad took us downtown and we took the "tour". And then we ate at the Nankin Restaurant. That same skyway is right outside my building and has the most people cross over it everyday. The last time a count was taken it was more than 70,000 people. One of our skyways has stained glass windows. And one skyway is only 9 feet long!
Would you believe I won the skyway trivia contest at work?
Glad your wife found things to enjoy here. Minneapolis comes as a surprise to many people. We have more than hotdishes and Lutefisk!
Enough of this nonsense!
So Tricia - I wonder if this restaurant that is so hard to get into allows people to talk on cell phones. Some of the high end restaurants here ban cell phone usage. Hopefully after waiting a year to get in people would leave their phone in the car and make the most of the experience!
This post was edited by teresa_mn on Fri, Jul 26, 13 at 22:11
foodonastump, I would rather have an honest cheese than the superficial array of unidentifiable foams and gels, not to mention the whole "let's make this look like an egg, but it isn't really."
Been there, done that, wasn't impressed ANY of the times we've had it. Was it tasty? Sometimes. Was it pretentious? You bet.
Was it as good as true Dover sole in champagne sauce from the old Le Bourgogne/San Francisco (terrible stuff, Dover sole - ruins you for anything else, LOL)? Or real Mediterranean scampi - NOT large shrimp, btw - in garlic butter? Or a perfect foie gras torchon in spiced peach consomme from La Folie/SF? Or that luscious poached egg with caviar and buttered leeks from Etoile/Yountville?
Heck, no.
We live in one of the greatest areas in the world for restaurants and food of any kind. People come from all over to eat in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have spent our retirement traveling around Northern CA to eat, and a whole lot of $$$ doing so.
I have a long list of foods I would ask for if I had to pick a final meal on earth. Not a single Modernist/MG dish would make it onto my list. Different strokes for different folks, that's all.
More power to anyone who loves MG. I appreciate the exquisite Parmesan foam that Madrona Manor did in their heirloom tomato bisque. Commis/Oakland does an amazing "egg cream" dish - always a little different, often phenomenal. Fleur de Lys/SF made some citrus "pearls" that really set off a lovely piece of local halibut.
But if you asked me right now where I'd most like to spend $250 on eating, I'd go (again) to Mourad Lahlou's Aziza, because his Moroccan-inspired fusion cooking makes the most terrific couscous around. My spouse hates couscous but flipped over Aziza's. Lahlou's recipe (in his cookbook) takes ten hours to make. Easier to just drive across the Bay Bridge and have dinner!
I hear you, jkom, and I share a lot of your sentiments. Except calling American Cheese Product "honest cheese", LOL.
"let's make this look like an egg, but it isn't really."
That made me laugh. Give it a pass at a kid's birthday party? Served atop extruded chocolate to make spaghetti carbonara that isn't really?
'---Was it as good as true Dover sole in champagne sauce from the old Le Bourgogne/San Francisco (terrible stuff, Dover sole - ruins you for anything else, LOL)? Or real Mediterranean scampi - NOT large shrimp, btw - in garlic butter? Or a perfect foie gras torchon in spiced peach consomme from La Folie/SF? Or that luscious poached egg with caviar and buttered leeks from Etoile/Yountville?
Heck, no.---'
I am not sure you can compare some of these restaurants with your more traditional restaurants. You don't go to restaurants like 11 Madison or Alinea for food, you go there for a completely different eating experience, experience that you will remember for the rest of your life.
'OMG! Wow! Stunning!', not just 'That was a yummy dinner'
Here is a link that might be useful: Not places for a good steak dinner
Because of my husband's job, we eat out. A lot. And I'm very, very grateful for the opportunity to try so many amazing restaurants. A few weeks ago in Barcelona we ate at a restaurant called "Tickets" which claims a 3 month waiting list. I have no idea if that's true. We had the tasting menu, along with quite a bit of cava along with some additional cocktails. It was quite an experience, and all the bites of food were spectacular and beautifully plated. Every course came with an explanation and instructions. (my FB friends can see pics on my page) And everything was truly delightful. Well, there was one exception: the marinated green olives. They gave us two of them, served on silver spoons in olive oil. My husband and I both HATE green olives, but we were in a trendy restaurant and it was served so beautifully, we were game to try it. It was repulsive. The flavor was ok but not great, nice garlic with a kick of saffron I think, although not enough to overpower the olive taste. But the texture! The consistency was so slimy and it kind of popped in my mouth, I had trouble swallowing it. The look on my husband's face was priceless - I could tell he really wanted so spit it out, but didn't dare.
It was an experience for sure. And one I won't soon forget. So even though the food was incredible, it was the experience that made the night. Every bite of the evening was a memory, some good, some bad, some just funny. But well worth the experience.
Every meal we had on our trip was memorable. From street food to the fanciest of restaurants. Mostly because of the awesome company.
>>I am not sure you can compare some of these restaurants with your more traditional restaurants. You don't go to restaurants like 11 Madison or Alinea for food, you go there for a completely different eating experience, experience that you will remember for the rest of your life. >>
As I said, different strokes for different folks. Some people like to be wowed with a flashy, I-have-no-idea-what-this-is experience. Others don't, and I'm one of them. As my spouse likes to say, it's display food: not passion, but ego, and without soul.
Those who have not yet read Pete Wells' hysterically funny column on tasting menus in the NYTimes might get a kick out of it:
Nibbled to Death
By PETE WELLS, NY Times October 9, 2012
"ONE of the most inviting openings to a restaurant meal I've ever heard came when I had closed the menu at Bouley and a server asked, "What shall we cook for you this evening?" The question managed to suggest that my choices would bring the kitchen intense pleasure, and that the pleasure would be returned to me many times over.
Compare this with the words of another server this year at an unnamed restaurant that offered tasting menus of several lengths. When I said I would tackle the whole megillah, a 12-course $245 spectacular, this was the response: "O.K., I'll go get that started for you."
If the server at Bouley had made me a partner in an imminent adventure, this one turned me into a cog in an invisible machine. The machine would operate for a fixed length of time, and my function would be to eat anything it produced until the gears stopped turning and I was allowed to leave.
Not all tasting menus get off to such an awkward start. Even so, when I face a marathon of dishes chosen by the restaurant, I often feel the same trapped, helpless sensation. "
(Full article at link below. NYTimes allows up to 10 free articles per month)
Here is a link that might be useful: NYTimes Food Critic Pete Wells on tasting menus
I wouldn't wait a year for a reservation nor would I enjoy "tastings" that last forever. I would think 20 courses would be gluttony and my body would object to so many different foods presented in such a relatively short period of time. I would, though, enjoy two or three every other night for a couple of weeks or so! Those would be to truly savor each dish, not to have the whole experience all at once and be in overload to every one of my senses multiple times in one evening.
IMHO the artistry of these food presentations is just that - art. In any venture (home building, pottery making, designing chairs or tables, building ice sculptures or sand castles, baking the world's largest whatever) there are always going to be those that go beyond the norm for the art of it - an expression of their craft. And, I applaud them for their expressions, but I might not necessarily enjoy them en masse.
On the other hand ----- I do know people who wait a whole year to spend $300 or more at the annual County Fair on junk food and rides for the "experience". LOL, LOL.
Based on the photos of the food and the delightful review, I'd rather go to Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Britain's priciest restaurant, in Oxfordshire. The size of that scallop and lobster salad is three times what they serve at our local Modernist places like Manresa, Coi, Saison, Commis, or Benu; and the ingredients are just as high quality.
Here's the thing: I like a dish to be not too big, but just large enough that I can really enjoy the different flavors as I eat. That's really hard with the Modernist "two tiny bites on a big plate" places.
Here is a link that might be useful: Jay Rayner's review of Britain's most expensive restaurant
And here I thought you were gonna talk about Nashville's Catbird Seat. I've never seen it say anytihng other than this:
No Availability for Catbird Seat within 30 days
Restaurant Name Price Availability (click time to reserve)
Catbird Seat Nashville : Contemporary American $$$$
No Availability for Catbird Seat within 30 daysUnfortunately there are no tables available that meet your criteria.Change Search ›
and you can't get in. Ever. They have a "rolling 30-day" reservation system. By 12:01AM, it's all booked for that evening 30 days from then. Oh well. Some day.
As an interesting update to this discussion, Food Republic investigated the new "Pay to Play" systems, where the essential point is "...A coveted 8 p.m. Saturday table at The Clam in the West Village is no longer just a "dinner reservation." It has become an asset, capable of being resold online for a significant upcharge. One such scalper-friendly site, called Shout, 'described as "a new kind of marketplace', reveals tables available this week at hotspots...for prices ranging from $20 to $60 (yes, that's just to sit)." "
I think eventually restaurants, first at the upper levels and then drifting downwards, will begin to take management of this and assess their own fees for seating.
Here is a link that might be useful: FR Investigates: What's Up With Pay-To-Play Restaurant Reservations?
It's an interesting discussion. As Jkom says, it's horses for courses. No-one's holding a gun to your head, making you eat food you don't want to eat. If someone was to invite me to such a restaurant would I say no? NEVER! hahaha but would I want to pay so much? Perhaps once in a lifetime.
" don't know what they do with their wasted food. For restaurant of that class, food is 10%, and presentation is 90%. People pay lots of money not because of their food, which are very delicious. People pay to be excited visually by the gastronomic gymnastics, of the artistic creativity, and the cuisine theatrics."
Dcarch wrote the above. In Europe, an any of you who have travelled here will know, the food HAS to taste delicious and is every bit as important as the presentation. There are so many good restaurants all over Europe that people would just walk. Good food is the norme and a bad restaurant gets a bad reputation VERY quickly now, especially with the excellent websites where you can check all the reviews before you book.
Wait a year? No. I would also far rather go to Raymond Blanc's restaurant in Oxford where you get wonderful food and they know how to treat a customer. He believes in good quality fresh ingredients cooked (he would say simply!!!) well and with love.
Masa in NYC, a sushi restaurant where you also have to wait months to get seats.
Minimum $, drinks not included, tips not included, over $400 per meal.
Other great restaurants give you spectacular food with recipes you can't make yourself.
Let me ask you, with good quality fish, is there a taste difference between a $20 sushi v.s. $100 sushi? Is there a "recipe" for sushi?
But I wouldn't mind trying the $400 sushi once.
This is interesting because I have a foodie friend going on a trip to Napa and we have been discussing whether or not the French Laundry is worth the splurge. Neither of us have been and reading reviews still hasn't helped the decision. There are a lot of things she needs more (that I think) than an $1,000 meal and to me, if you have to consider it, you can't afford it.
This post was edited by Bumblebeez on Mon, Jun 9, 14 at 20:30
Oh, hell no. Looks like wretched excess to me. I like good food and pleasant atmosphere as much as anyone, but for that kind of cash, I could feed 100 homeless people for a week. I'd rather have a nice simple meal at home and do just that, rather than get two bites of something I have no idea what it is, on a plate decorated with splotches of some exotic sauce and a few fancy garnishes. I'm just not into status symbol food. To each his own, but I find those kinds of places pretentious and over-priced.
Apologize for the length, but what the heck:
Bumblebeez, I have to say it's one of those individual decisions, speaking as someone who lives a little over an hour away from Napa and visits just for the restaurants.
I've never made it to FL, but a foodie friend I trust made it in on a last-minute cancellation (yes, sometimes those impromptu calls really do work) and he loved it, said it was the best dinner he'd ever had.
OTOH, as someone once commented to NYTimes critic Pete Wells (she is in the industry, eats at these very top-level restaurants without having to pay for it), you are paying for two things: the very freshest ingredients and exquisite precision of execution; e.g., the cutting and placement of food. She pointed out it does not actually taste any better; it is simply beautiful and consistent with no flaws, plate after plate. You need never worry that somebody else's caviar with oyster foam is a little bigger or less salty than yours; the food will be the same no matter who is receiving it that night.
Now...that kind of experience may well be worth it, just as a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Nothing wrong with that - every gourmet/foodie has their own memories that they hold dear!
I can only say I've given up trying for FL. It just isn't worth it to us. We've eaten great food in Northern CA for 45 yrs, and would rather spread my $$$ around elsewhere at restaurants we can get into, that also have truly remarkable food. We're retired and can spend as much time and $$$$ as we want up there.
That said, your friend might try for Meadowood. Chris Kostow is not the household name that Thomas Keller is, but unlike Keller, Kostow remains the ExecChef, hands-on, at Meadowood, which holds the same # of Michelin stars that FL does. Talk amongst local foodies is that FL is still very good but Meadowood is better and more exciting.
If it was my $2K, this is what I'd spend it on (but I could do it because we don't drink, which saves a lot of money!). Opinions are STRICTLY MINE, ymmv:
- Auberge du Soleil - Upscale resort with glorious food and an even more glorious view IF, and only if, you can snag one of the four tables on the outdoor patio. Sitting there overlooking the Napa Valley, eating a lobster and veal sandwich on brioche and finishing with an after-meal French brandy, is one of our favorite memories. It's the only restaurant in the Napa Valley with a high-hill valley view. Worth every extra penny it'll cost.
- Ca'Momi @Oxbow Market - Brilliant authentic Italian cuisine in a noisy, uncomfortable market hall. Try to get a patio table because the tables inside are small and smashed together. Bring a cooler and ice for those luscious pastries!
- Etoile @Domaine Chandon - Stunning. Wonderful. Worthy of LVMH's Dom Perignon (they own all three brands, and more). If I had to pick only one dinner in the Napa Valley, Etoile is where I'm going. Perry Hoffman is a genius, with the masterfully understated touch that only terrific talent and classic training (French, of course) can produce. Try the Chandon brandy, 24 yrs old and only available for sale at the winery - phenomenal stuff.
- Solbar @Solange Resort: A Relais & Chateaux property, and worthy of its siblings. Too many people miss this phenomenal restaurant in Calistoga. The service is excellent and the food is exquisite. The heartier side of the spa menu is surprisingly carnivorous as well as generous. But don't miss the spa dishes; they aren't your usual rabbit food. A chicken pasta soup from the spa side was downright stunning; a rich dark brown from roasted bones, full of juicy shredded chicken breast and mini-farfalle. I drag my DH all over to eat and he said this was hands-down the most amazing soup he'd ever had, simple yet utterly perfect.
After that splurge you need something cheaper. Cheese and pate and good bread for a picnic:
- Bouchon Bakery- Croissants a little saltier than Parker-Lusseau in Monterey, but crisp and lovely. Chocolate budino dessert cakes are a winner. Baguettes are extremely neutral in flavor, excellent for a cheese tasting. Note they get very crowded at lunchtime and sell out by 2p.
- Dean & Deluca Delicatessen/Specialty Grocery - The goose mousse pate is worth selling your soul, or more probably all your arteries, for. Come with ice packs and your cooler, and stock up!
- La Foret Chocolatier - Opened by the former pastry chef at the French Laundry, she makes fairly salty chocolates (and still supplies FL for their chocolates). But we did like the white chocolate macadamia ginger bar, which surprised us since we don't like white chocolate or ginger. Hidden in a very obscure, tiny residential strip mall outside downtown Napa. Look for Browns Valley Market which fronts the mall, and BVM also carries Bouchon baguettes (but skip BVM's deli offerings, Dean & Deluca are better).
And yeah, I'd make time to visit the Castello di Amoroso, Sattui's own personal folly. I'm a sucker for brick buildings, and a series of wine cellars with double-vaulted brick arched ceilings? There are only 7 brickmasons in the world who know how to do that kind of artisan work any longer, and Sattui had three of them working on it. Their wines aren't top tier, but they offer a cabernet and chocolate tasting that is a lot of fun. Loved the tour and recommended it to my role-playing Renaissance Fair friends!
It's hard to get bad food in the Valley but it's possible. I'm not a lover of over-the-top, "throw in the kitchen sink" cooking that many young chefs do. And we avoid Napa in summer, when service is more amateur (the summer temps are hired in May) and everybody is crushed under busloads of visitors.
Good for more casual meals:
- Angele, Napa
- Bistro Jeanty, Yountville
- Lucy @Bardessono Resort, Yountville
- Market Restaurant , Yountville
- Redd, Yountville
- Bottega, Yountville (gone downhill)
- Bouchon Restaurant, Yountville (go to sibling Ad Hoc instead, casual American food)
- Brix, Napa (new chef just started)
- Don Giovanni, Napa (tired oldie)
- The Grill @Meadowood - Note this is NOT the upscale FL competitor, Meadowood Restaurant, which is sited upstairs above the Grill. Too expensive for a casual place.
- La Toque, Napa. Erratic.
- Mustards, Napa. Sloppy oversized plates
- Oenotri, Napa. Same as Mustards but Italian
- Siena, Napa. Corporate blandness
Anyway, no matter what your friend does, I'm sure she'll have a great time. Just don't schedule too much in one day -- common first-timer error. Distances are long, traffic is messy in summer, heat is tiring. And remember, bring a jacket for cool evenings! 64 degrees may sound great but when at 3p it was 103, it'll feel surprisingly cold.
Here is a link that might be useful: Sattui's Castello in Napa Valley
This post was edited by jkom51 on Tue, Jun 10, 14 at 11:29
You're welcome!
BTW, for those who might wonder why I included the more modest Ca'Momi in with the upscale French Solbar, Auberge, and Etoile, it's because Ca'Momi is a rarity: one of the few US restaurants that holds two certificates of authenticity from Italy: It is VPN certified, meaning it specializes in truly authentic Pizza Napoletana. Verace Pizza Napoletana (VPN) is an organization that certifies the authenticity of Pizza Napoletana. This means their Pizza Napoletana is exactly how it would taste in Naples: same ingredients, same techniques.
Ca' Momi is also a recipient of the Ospitalita Italiana seal, a symbol of quality and authenticity granted by the Italian government to Italian restaurants around the world that promote authentic Italian gastronomic culture and standards.
If nothing else, grab one of their bigne or ciambellina for dessert. Authentic whipped cream Italian pastries to die for! What is in the dairy case in the main mall is ALL they have for the entire day. When it runs out, that's it.
Oxbow Market, where Ca'Momi is, also has a number of other very good food quality vendors, including Hog Island Oysters and Fatted Calf charcuterie. Anette's Chocolates is a local chocolatier (main store in downtown Napa) and the one item we buy as gifts for friends are their chocolate liqueur syrups, which are very good and unusual:
Here is a link that might be useful: Anette's Chocolate Wine and Liqueur Sauces


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The Mountain Science Expo 2015 theme is to learn how Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) are incorporated into our everyday lives, so come spend the day learning how you can get involved in your favorite topics. This year's event will feature Science Fair exhibits from our 22 Western North Carolina schools that participated in Project EXPLORE, as well as presentations from students across the western region who participate in the Summer Ventures program. We will also have special presentations from author Dawn Cusick to discuss her new books and new booths from Asheville Art Museum and The Environmental Quality Institute. You can also expect the return of some annual favorites: The WNC Nature Center, the NC BioNetwork, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Hands On! and more!
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Is it just me or does anyone else have a sense of futility while playing a prequel? I mean, it's nice to know some more back-story to a game, particularly a game you like, but in the end it feels like you haven't helped at all since you know and played (assuming you played the game which the prequel ties into) events that will happen in the future. Here's a generic example: you're the hero and you must stop scary badguy from destorying/taking over the world. Omg, what will happen, will you be able to save it? Well of course (or not) because you already know what's going to happen from playing the (sequel?), at least the general outcome of it.
Granted, in many videogames there is a linear path and most likely one ending, but at least it feels like you're fighting for something and don't know what's going to happen (other than just the regular predictable outcome from a generic story). In prequels I feel like I'm just going through the motions to progress the story and hope to have some fun doing so.Anyways, I plan on editing and adding more concise thoughts when it's not about 1 a.m.
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Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president
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Tia Isa Wants a Car (Junior Library Guild Selection (Candlewick Press))
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I did not really like this book. I do not believe that the plot was very realistic. Although it had a nice message, that children can help adults earn money, I do not believe that the girl could help her aunt buy a car from feeding cats and stacking oranges. I did like the writing in this book. Each page started with "Tia Isa wants a car" which added emphasis to how badly she wanted a car. Lastly, I liked how this story was a window into the life of a girl who lives with her aunt and uncle in America but sends money home to her mother, father and extended family in Mexico. Overall, the main idea of this story was to show how hard work can pay off.
Charming, warm story about two sisters who work hard to save enough money to buy a used car that they can use to drive the family to the beach.
Tia Isa wants a car but she does not have enough money. Her niece finds many ways to make money and give it to her aunt. Together the two have enough to buy an old, big car, a car big enough to hold the entire family when they are all reunited again in the United States.
"Tia Isa wants a car.
She tells me after work when she still smells of lemon pies from the bakery.
She is turning the jump rope that's tied to the fence and I am already up to twenty.
'Un pisicorre,' she says, 'to take us to the beach!'
'Really? The beach' I can't catch my breath.
No one goes far from my block in the summer. But a beach has foamy water that reaches all the places I cannot go.
'Si, really. Let's save.'
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0763641561, Hardcover)A little girl pitches in to help her tía save up for a big old car - and take the whole family to the beach - in a story told with warmth and sweetness.
Tía Isa wants a car. A shiny green car the same color as the ocean, with wings like a swooping bird. A car to take the whole family to the beach. But saving is hard when everything goes into two piles - one for here and one for Helping Money, so that family members who live far away might join them someday. While Tía Isa saves, her niece does odd jobs for neighbors so she can add her earnings to the stack. But even with her help, will they ever have enough? Meg Medina's simple, genuine story about keeping in mind those who are far away is written in lovely, lyrical prose and brought to life through Claudio Muñoz's charming characters.
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Here's my 10 day forecast.
If it makes you feel any better, my lettuces are done and my cilantro is flowering.
Here is a link that might be useful: Summer for a week
Wow Kevin, that sucks... all that heat! I feel for ya ;-)
Unfortunately, I'm a little north east where ma nature isn't so kind. At least we're breaking into the 50s for a few days!
Seriously, how's the water situation out there? Any relief from your drought?
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79F here today...probably warmer even, but I didn't check my thermometer until after 4:00pm. Too hot for my tastes!
Bill, we got a lot of rain over the past few storms, but not significant snow-pack....so the Droughtmongering continues.
Kevin, that looks like summer, for sure.
Bill, hang in there ! Those lows should improve soon, I hope.
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97 degrees, seriously? I am jealous of the all the nice weather. It is warming up a little bit here too. But it still might snow on april 15th ouch. Here is a link to my 10 day. It will probably be another month before I put them outside.
Here is my forecast down in Medellin, Colombia...
75-80 degrees for the next 365 days.
Seriously though, the temperature has risen a few degrees, we might be in the low 80s these days and the locals can barely deal with the heat... they are calling this one of the worst heat waves they've ever seen. I can't imagine if they were to ever really feel 95 degree weather, lol!
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Ok. I am glad THAT THE spring is coming , no matter what.
My current conditions: Clear, NO rain: 42F - 64F( +/- 3, i.e 39 - 67F).
Pepper wise, tomorrow is the day to get started with potting them up for good.
All my peppers are going into pots. It is going to be a beautiful 61F sunny day, Perfect to work without sweating. I have a barrel full of 5-1-1. All systems =GO!
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Personally, I think it's still too cool for you seysonn, but you live, you learn.
Glad to hear a lot of the country isn't dealing with the big deep freezes so much anymore..
For me, looks like it's going to start cooling back down again, but these 90's did wonders for the soil temps. We'll still get a few jolts like these before August when it really heats up here, but most of the time it will be glorious 70's-80's.
Here is a link that might be useful: April outlook
Personally, I think it's still too cool for you seysonn, but you live, you learn.
Yeah Kevin, I am learning PNW.
I have still my peppers under the hoop but I have planted about 20 tomatoes so far. We have had lows down to 38. NO PROBLEM. The lows last just for about hour and half, not all night long. Tonight we will hit 41F. For the next 10 days lows will be 43 to 46F. That is great for Seattle area.
I think plants also learn to live with the conditions they are in, as long as the colds an heat are not in extremes.
Hey MorugaMan, it's snowing in western OK this morning and along the border of OK and KS (actually there's a band running from north to south moving east). If the temps drop much lower here we might get some snow too, right now it's about 100 miles west of us. They are saying we will probably set a record tomorrow morning for the low not only for that day but for the latest low in the season.
Yep, the cold of winter has returned to MN. After a week of Spring like weather are thermometers are not going to get out of the 30's much if at all until weeks end. Currently at lunch time it's 34 degrees. I had thought about putting some of my pepper plants out to the greenhouse (hardsideded and has heater) but decided I'd hold off till this coming weekend.
No snow in the twin city area - all stayed south of us...
I don't feel as bad now after knowing some of you have gotten a bunch of snow. Bruce- how is it staying warm in that little greenhouse? I had the same one but the dam think blew down the street so I had to throw it away. Good luck to you all with low temps. Don't worry we will get them out and we will do well!!!
I run a small space heater that has a built in thermostat. It got down to just 47 last night inside. Supposed to be a low of 19 tonight so it may get a little cooler inside but should still stay well above 40. I could turn it up but I think that is good enough to ensure the cold it wont harm the plants.
Bruce, you are a fighter. When is your LFD?
We are not in Florida or California here in PNW. Our average normal temps are 42 to 62F. That is what we have now and that is what will be til mid May or later. So the life here is on slow motion.
Tonight, for the first time ALL my peppers are outside in the open. No more sheltering. The low will be about 44F.
I hope I didn't irritate anyone:)
WOW! Look at all that snow. I am really hoping we do not get that much snow tomorrow. It was 75 today and tomorrow we have a low of 21 and a high of 34 with 100% chance of snow. The sad thing is, 6 weeks from now it will probably be in the 90s with 95% humidity and we will be complaining about the heat.
Last frost date is last week in May. Temps should slowly rise into the 60's for highs by early next week. Normals now are 58 highs and 32 lows. We just had a strong cold front come through but that has been the MO for this winter and it just doesn't seem to want to give it up yet. Another 1/2" of snow last night. But like I said, things are looking to start improving now.
WOW Bruce, sorry for all the snow, but it is pretty. ;-) You are lucky, only 1 heater.... most of the winter I had 3-5 heaters going, depending on how cold it got. 19 degrees would mean 4 heaters running. God only knows how much we spent on electricity.
Hey Bruce,
Thanks for sending the snow my way, not.
Gotta love spring in Ottawa. 77F yesterday afternoon on the deck. 65-70 MPH kicked in late afternoon and temps dropped to just above freezing overnight. Woke up to rain this morning that turned to freezing rain and then ice pellets. After all that fun, Bruce's snow started. Got home to:
It's 25F (11F with windchill) now and down to 14 overnight.
I grow weary of this never ending winter. I'm lighting a fire and I'm going to enjoy a few "strong" Bloody Marys (made with my Red Savina infused vodka).
Disregard any further posts tonight... they may be incoherent ;-)
C'mon Stoney! Give them the full 10-day!
Sorry Bill, Pam, and Bruce.. I had to. Even though you're 3 of my favorites.
Here is a link that might be useful: Why it's so damn expensive to live in SoCal
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Kevin... :-P~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Actually, there's no way I'll complain, not when I see and hear what Bruce and Bill are going through. We should be through with our cold, 40's and 50's for lows and 70's for highs for the next 12 days. To me, that's perfect weather, considering by June Bill and Bruce are going to be rubbing everyone's noses in it when we and are plants are cooking in the summer sun. ;-)
P.S. you guys are 3 of my faves too... although, where's scorpion John been lately, I haven't seen any posts from him in ages.
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Bruce, your weather looks promising. That snow was like a false alarm.
You can get ready to start with tomatoes. I have planted most of my maters and peppers and will have lows down to 40F in a couple of days.
My tomatoes have taken 38F on the chin, few nights and they are actually growing. And our highs are in 58-62Frange.
By the end of May our highs average will reach 68F. The Pacific Ocean controls the weather here. The high-low difference is very narrow, about 16F.
This one is interesting : TODAY'S HIGH =52F, TONIGHT'S LOW = 48F :: Delta T = 4 degrees.
Seysonn: Yah, it was not ordinary weather for mid April. I am crossing my fingers that it just one last gasp by the Winter Gremlins. I planted tomatoes several weeks ago. They are getting pretty tall now....4-6". I hope I don't have to up pot them before I can plant them out for the summer....six weeks..Yikes.
SproutingLexi: Yep, I spent 5 years in S.A. while in the Army. I will be laughing at you in July when you get that 10 days of 105 and sunny during the day and 80 at night every day for ten straight days. It happens every year at least once. I can remember having to to Physical Training during those times. We would have to get up and go out to do it at 4am while it was still "COOL" outside. Just going out to get the mail forces a guy to take a shower.
80 for lows? Hey Bruce, there's times in August I'd love 80 at night. ;-)
And Dennis, heck, I have almost 3000 plants (more if you include all my flowers, herbs, and coleus) in the greenhouse and I still have time to write. Seems like John has gotten bored with us.
hahahaha, yep, leave it to me to go away for a short while (pepper fair saturday, ends up non-stop from thursday afternoon until sunday morning.
although I have to admit Bruce, my husband's favorite comment is, "once the pie has been cut nobody is going to miss a piece or two."
hahahaha, yep, leave it to me to go away for a short while (pepper fair saturday, ends up non-stop from thursday afternoon until sunday morning.
although I have to admit Bruce, my husband's favorite comment is, "once the pie has been cut nobody is going to miss a piece or two."
Time to irritate a bit :)
Starting tomorrow we will have a 9 days of super nice weather here in the PNW.
62/44 --74/45 --81/48 -- 87/50 ---79/50 ---65/45 --61/45 --61/45 -- 62/42 -- I love it. It has been a long 6 months.
I have heard it is going to be REAL HOT in zone 9b , California.
What is happening in WI, Bruce ?
Nothing is happening is WI. It is still the Winter Monsoon season here, I think.
To be fair, we should be in the low to mid 60's for highs right now but this has been the mode for three months now with day time highs averaging about ten degrees below normal. And this excessive rain is getting out of hand as well. Even a little sun would make things bearable.
well, we're in a drought, and saturday we had a high of 85 or 87, we were out all day at the herb fair (7am to 4pm), it was hot and the wind was screaming like a bat out of hell. At least it's going to cool off into the 60's for highs for the next week.
Well Pam, as you can see, along with the cool temps here, we have been getting plenty of rain with more on the way. They are talking possible record April rainfall here. I am right in the middle of the red swath in S. Central Wisconsin. The peppers are still in the green house, but they could use some real sunlight and warmer temps. The heater only keeps it in the mid 50's. And the perpetual cloudy skies is about as effective as full shade.
I am guessing you are located in the South or Southwest according to this map.
Talking about rain. We get it ALL the time. But right now our rain season is coming to an end. We get a lot of gentle, drizzly rain, no down pours, no high winds. Thank Pacific Ocean. It is always calm.
Today was not very warm (Just 62F high) starting tomorrow it is going to get into 70s and 80s for a week. My peppers like it a lot and so do I. This time around the soil temps are going to get a kick.
Bruce posted a RAIN map. Here is a temperature map at the moment. WI is still a bit blue. It won't be too long when all the air is blended.
Bruce, outside of Tulsa, ok. It's funny, people seem to forget about the dust bowl days, they act like a drought in this part of the country is a rarity. What scares me, is this area (luckily we are on the far fringes) has experienced droughts lasting 1000 years. If we are heading into one of those, it'd make the dust bowl days look quaint by comparison. Honestly, I prefer a bit dry to wet. We had one really wet summer a few years ago, it was miserable, heat, humidity, mowing every 2-3 days, garden did great though.
Al Gore says we are having climate change so I am sure the 1000 year cycle is all jacked up now.....probably be a rain forest down there in a couple years. You should move to wisconsin, I am gonna start some palm tree seeds with my peppers next year.
And we all know Al Gore knows his science. ;-)
Sorry you Pacific NW guys, but NO! I love the NW (my aunt lived in Centralia and I loved to visit her) but no way could I live in a rain forest environment, I need more sun! I would pick WI but from the sounds you are making Bruce, you guys might be the ones ready to turn into a rain forest. Hey, send me some Palm seedlings. ;-)
I am just a new transplant here in PNW. Trying to adjust to the rain forest weather. The natives love it. They say clouds and rain keep us warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
OK. Back to irritate: Today was 78F sunny, gorgeous day. The next 4 days will more of the same.
Wishing you a nice weather. hehe
BTW: I have lived in Joplin, MO, in the tornado alley for couple of yours.
I seem to be in your wake weather wise so far this year. Had a decent day yesterday with some sun and a high of 57 but your rain started today. The forecast for the next 7+ days is cool/cold and rain, Thanks!
Dave and seysonn, to quote a classic Jimmy Buffet lyric; "the weather is here, wish you were beautiful". Thanks for rubbing your temps in ;-))
To brighten up the weather misery talk, thought I'd share this shot. I use "Sticky Sticks" (basically super sticky fly paper on 6" posts) to keep fungus gnats in check. I had a few trays out on the deck yesterday to sort plants, didn't notice my pooch had taken an interest until he came by for a little help.


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Five years after the Boston Museum abandoned plans to build a $120 million facility above one of the I-93 ramps adjacent to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, a state lawmaker has filed a measure to cap the same roadway to potentially encourage future development.
According to NorthEndWaterfront.com, a bill introduced by state Rep. Aaron Michlewitz, a Democrat in Boston's North End, aims to cap Parcel 12, the exit ramp between Cross Street and Surface Road that was created as part of the Big Dig project. But the proposal does not say how much it would cost, or how the state would pay for it.
Originally, the Boston Museum had hoped to build a venue and a pedestrian bridge that would connect the Greenway to the facility. But museum officials said the cost to build above a ramp was prohibitive.
Michlewitz told NorthEndWaterfront.com that the ramp "creates excessive noise that impacts surrounding North End residents as well as poor aesthetics."
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation owns the land and is obligated to cover the Greenway ramps. The new legislation puts a date on that requirement, requiring the ramp be covered by November 2017.
Michlewitz said that capping the ramp could spur development opportunities for Parcel 12 on what would be about a 3.5-acre parcel, according to NorthEndWaterfront.com.
"In addition to covering the highway ramps, I want to also move forward with a discussion about what the community wants to happen at Parcel 12 and whether we continue to hold out for development there," Michlewitz said.
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All women are at risk for breast cancer — one out of eight women will be diagnosed with this disease during their lifetime. But thanks to better, more advanced treatments, many of those diagnosed with breast cancer will go on to live full, active lives.
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