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Minibar at Cafe Atlantico

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From: Jeff
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 17:59
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If you've got $100 plus drinks, tax & tip to drop on a dinner, check
this place out.  It's not really dinner in any conventional sense.
It's a tasting menu to the max.  It's all about flavors, combined and
contrasted, with amazing innovation.  In fact, one of the courses was
so insubstantial it was called "watermelon air" served as a palate
cleanser.  It was a bit of watermelon juice that had somehow been
foamed, and it dissolves into nothing your mouth leaving nothing but
the flavor of fresh watermelon.  Another dish was a piece of lobster
tail skewered onto a scientific bulb syringe; you use it to pop the
lubster into your mouth and squeeze the bulb to squirt the sauce in
after it.  

We had 35 different two-bite courses over a 2-hour-plus seating.  You
are served by two chefs and an assistant, and watch as they prepare
everything, a bit like being served at a sushi bar.  A "host" makes
sure you get your glass of wine properly timed, etc.

It's a little hard to get reservations.  They have two seatings of six
people each per night, and you can't call more than a month in
advance.

It's pricey but for hard-core foodies it's a great experience.  But
the menu evolves slowly so I don't imagine going back anytime soon.


-- 
Jeff
Never put off until tomorrow what
you can put off until the day after tomorrow.
(reply by using "jeff" instead of "spam")
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