Picked up pastries (from Mr. Holmes, a few blocks away) for breakfast. Sticky buns with the darkest caramel were a highlight. Plus bleu cheese-pear danish, feta-artichoke heart danish and some white chocolate cream puffs. And a bostock (kind of a syrup soaked brioche, with blackberries in this case). And maybe another kouign amman?
Lunch was, I think, sushi. Good, although I wished I had ordered udon instead of tempura.
Dinner was Gary Danko, and it was very lavish and fun. I'm afraid I don't remember what the amuse-bouche were. Maybe tiny little tomato soups? I started with a tuna, avocado and enoki mushroom dish that I remembered from about 10 years ago when we ate there. Still wonderful (but probably something you could make at home with good enough ingredients). Then I had sea bass with favas, green garlic and cous cous, then a filet with gnocchi and stilton butter (fine). Corrina had risotto with shrimp and Dungeness crab, and lamb with " Farroto, Medjool Dates, Rainbow Carrots and Green Chermoula" (it was my favorite of the entrees and she seemed to like it). Jessica started with "Glazed Oysters with Osetra Caviar, Zucchini Pearls and Lettuce Cream", followed by "Horseradish Crusted Salmon Medallion with Dilled Cucumbers
and Mustard Sauce" and the beef. We shared a cheese course (amazing! I wish I remembered what the cheeses were...). Souffles for Corrina and me (she had grand marnier, I had chocolate), and Jessica had "Lemon Soufflé Cake with Crème Fraîche Panna Cotta and Raspberry Sorbet". Then there were little tiny pastries to finish. Although there were a couple of little missteps (the bread was only so-so, they got my order wrong and I sat there with no food in front of me for quite a while), it was a really lovely evening.
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