The weekend is ravenous.
To celebrate a seven-year anniversary, seven courses of course—from Hamachi with Edamame Puree to Roasted Duck with Wasabi to Chocolate Beignets with Pumpkin Confit. The cost, as you may have guessed, is $77.
Acclaimed/tattooed chef Ludovic Lefebvre kept busy this year goosing diners with spontaneous modern fare like Foie Gras Black Croque Monsieurs at his pop-up kitchen behind the Breadbar stoves. And now that he's taking over our favorite Japanese-maid café for 13 nights, you can expect the plates to be as surreal as the scenery.
When dinner comes to a close, there's only one way to finish things off. Not dessert—a shot. Okay, maybe both. After your dinner at Nobu, they're now offering a Kabocha Crème (it involves Japanese pumpkin) paired with a shot of gin, spicy pumpkin puree, milk and nutmeg. 'Tis the season.
To celebrate the 83rd year in the life of the confounding artist Rachel Rosenthal (if you haven't given her some sort of award, you're probably the only one), you'll find a bizarre blowout including a silent auction of 83 works by the likes of Baldessari and Rauschenberg. The evening's wines—Bitch Grenache and Pure Evil Chardonnay.
The 800-pound gorilla of tasting events beats its mighty chest this weekend, with help from Benjamin "Ford's Filling Station" Ford, Celestino "Drago Centro" Drago, Neal "Grace" Fraser—and plenty of beer, wine, tequila and gin. But probably not 800 pounds' worth. Probably.
