Beef Tartare With Caviar and Smoked Bone Marrow Pastrami With Pickles Rye Mustard and Cranberry

My birthday and Rocky'south are eight days apart. We've made a addiction of making the celebrations bridge a few weeks. Last month, between our birthdays, on a beautiful February Dominicus, nosotros historic with an outstanding dejeuner at Xi Madison Park. We showed up ahead of schedule and sipped some bubbles at the bar earlier sitting at our splendid corner table.

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On the table was a knife we used to open an envelope containing 2 punch cards offering iv different flavors: maple, cranberry, fennel, apple. Nosotros were told we had to choice a flavor that would appear afterwards in our meal. Rocky picked apple. I chose fennel.

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eleven madison park apple cheddar black and white cookie

CHEDDAR Savory Black and White Cookie with Apple. To boot off the repast, EMP'due south most recent adaptation of the New York classic. A cheesy savory biscuit complemented nicely by the sugariness apple filling.

eleven madison park oyster vichyssoise

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OYSTER Vichyssoise and Caviar. A dense Leap Creek Oyster, dotted with caviar, resting in creamy vichyssoise. The rich sauce was a skilful base for the dual salinity. Skilful stuff.

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SCALLOP Marinated with Apple tree, Pino, and Water Chestnut. A solid enough E Coast scallop spiced up with horseradish and cooled off with yogurt. Some apple snow gave the plate a squeamish lasting acerbity.

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BEEF Tartare with Caviar and Smoked Bone Marrow. A decadent care for. Somehow the smoked marrow and raw beef didn't kill the caviar with richness. Great residual.

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Beefiness Pastrami with Pickles, Rye, Mustard, and Apple/Fennel. An homage to NYC delis. Rye bread with mustard, black garlic, and endive, pickles, a couple slices of pastrami, and sodas – apple flavored for Rocky and fennel for me. A super fun and pretty delicious course. Both the sodas were awesome.

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FOIE GRAS Seared with Sunchokes, Hazelnuts, and Solera Vinegar. At the outset of the meal we were each asked if nosotros wanted our foie gras seared or cured. Naturally I wanted both but we concluded up going i and 1 and I got to eat the bulk of each. This presentation was fantastic. The foie was superb with the sweetness and earthy accompaniments.

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FOIE GRAS Cured with Sunchokes and Fermented Mustard Greens. The mustard seeds and fermented greens added a nice depth to the plate, only we both preferred the seared presentation.

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APPLE Waldorf Salad with Celery, Cranberries, and Walnuts. Apple and celery root dressed in lemon mayonnaise with cranberries, blue cheese, and candied walnuts. The service cart that rolled upward with the mise en place for this course was impressive. The story of the dish, the preparation, and the beautiful antique cookbook were remarkable. The salad itself was mediocre at best. Rocky asked me if she had to finish hers. Though beneath the salad in the ii function bowl was a granola and yogurt reinterpretation that was pretty nice. The strong celery taste of the granola was great, but it was still just yogurt and granola. Too bad the nutrient didn't match the grandeur of the service for this one.

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Rocky and I were invited into the kitchen and shown to a standing loftier-meridian tabular array where we were served a modernist interpretation of a penicillin cocktail. Scotch, ginger, love…boozy fun.

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LOBSTER Poached with Razor Clam, Bounding main Urchin, and Kale. First, a cold plating of the grade. Tangy lobster salad stuffed inside a hook, body of water urchin panna cotta, and razor clam with pear, roe, and kale puree. The clam and pear slices were strongly flavored and were not bad with the earthy vegetal kale.

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eleven madison park lobster kale razor clam

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LOBSTER Poached with Razor Clam, Sea Urchin, and Kale. And and so, the warm plating of the course. Sweet, rich lobster tail, sea urchin foam, compact razor mollusk, a nice slice of pear, and an astonishing kale leaf that tasted as if it may have been cooked in lobster stock and butter. A sublimely superb plate.

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CELERY ROOT Braised with Black Truffle. A sphere carved from the core of braised celery root and doused with powerfully rich and fragrant black truffle jus. Alongside was some celery root puree under which sprawled black truffle puree. Wonderful intensity of bawdy flavors.

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DUCK Broth with Sausage and Gruyère. At the start of the meal, another choice nosotros had to make was between duck or pork for the last savory. I'll choose their dearest lavender glazed duck every time. The bird was presented, and so carved and plated while we had a minor bowl of duck broth with a kick donkey gruyère and duck sausage bit with some kickin mustard seed acerbity.

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DUCK Roasted with Lavander, Honey, and Rutabaga. An outstanding roasted duck breast with rutabaga and citrus duck jus. The basin served beside the feature was something along the lines of confit duck leg with a dense foamy foie gras sauce.

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eleven madison park picnic cheese course

GREENSWARD Pretzel, Onion, and Dried Fruit. A picnic handbasket complete with everything nosotros needed to accept a cheese course picnic. The feature was a cut of Greensward, a raw moo-cow milk cheese past Jasper Hill Farms(Vermont) that is done with Ithaca Beer Co's Picnic Basket Ale and wrapped in spruce. Alongside was dried fruit, onion jam, and pretzel bread; the latter two were flavored with the same beer, a bottle of which was included in the basket. Good times.

eleven madison park sweet potato espresso orange SWEET Murphy Curd with Espresso Meringue and Orangish Sorbet. A strikingly vivid plate. Compelling compliments betwixt multiple sweetness and multiple bitter elements and the sourish citrus acidity. This had me going until the end: 'Wow…what's happening??'

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VANILLA Broiled Alaska with Rum, Raisin, and Apple/Fennel. Vanilla ice cream enclosed in a thick layer of meringue arrived on our tabular array and was flambéed while our guy explained the history of the Baked Alaska dessert. It disappeared back to the kitchen and arrived once again later plated upwards with Rocky's and my preordained flavors of apple tree and fennel. Between the initial presentation and the terminal plating the portion curiously shrunk dramatically in size. I'm guessing the balance got tossed, but we sure did want to eat information technology.

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PRETZEL Chocolate Covered with Sea Salt. A pretty delicious mildly crunchy, sweet, chocolatey pretzel.

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CHOCOLATE Sweet Black and White Cookie with Cinnamon. To finish the repast, EMP'south electric current sweet iteration of the NYC classic. Oatmeal flour, Saigon cinnamon, and Mast Brothers chocolate.

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