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| "... A great meal returns you to sources of pleasure you may have forgotten and takes you to places you haven't been before." - Thomas Keller, The French Laundry. The Napa Valley is North America's most celebrated rural fine wine and food destination. Here is where some of America's finest produce is grown and wine is produced. It is also the location of perhaps the best restaurant in the U.S. - the French Laundry. It is a uniquely American restaurant set amongst hills and vineyards reminiscent of the French country side. Housed in what was a French steam laundry, it first became a restaurant in the 70's, and when Thomas Keller visited in 1992, he knew it was the place for him to open the restaurant he had always dreamed of. Like all the 3 Michelin starred restaurants in the world, to eat at the French Laundry is an experience. Please know dear reader, we take you with us on this hedonistic journey purely for your gratification. Every day Thomas Keller creates 2 unique nine-course menus - chef's tasting and a tasting of vegetables and no single ingredient is repeated throughout the up to 5 1/2 hour sojourn. From the first moment, when you are seated and notice the |
neatly pressed dinner napkin clipped with wooden clothespin, you know every minute detail has been thoughtfully considered: the purpose-built porcelain dinnerware, the most exact brunoise of vegetables to the laundry tag style bill at the very end. Chef Keller has designed this menu to make you want more after every course. Your senses become more heightened as you venture on this culinary odyssey. Beginning with the signature amuse bouche of salmon cornets and gougeres, you next sample the classic Keller dish "Oysters and Pearls":a sabayon of pearl tapioca with Island Creek oysters and white sturgeon caviar which is rich and creamy with a briny saltiness. The alchemy of pleasure...
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