Salted black licorice of egg yolk, whipped frozen yogurt, toasted farro koji & black raspberry jam

Lovage stem licorice candy

Truffles

                               

   A ganache seasoned with button mushroom & oolong tea

Riverstead

Caramelized lamb with Sea Island red pea miso

Bone marrow taco

Lamb

glazed in its liver and black garlic, ramps pickled in sheeps milk and trout lily.

Milk & licorice sundae

A dessert of peas & carrots

Wild & cultivated peas & carrots with wild ginger & licorice

Riverstead

Warm black truffle & black walnut tacos

Dungeness crab, scrambled kani miso, foie gras 

with a bouillon of of kelp, sorrel & meyer lemon

Peas

Sugar snap peas with trout roe, eggs yolk, pickled ramp, sea island red pea miso, pea flower, pea shell oil

Photos by Jose Moran

Embers of birch, wintergreen & mint

Hay sorbet, dried apples, white chocolate & sencha tea

Roasted lamb shoulder, caramelized milk, 

lamb marmite & black walnuts

Paw paw & a cream of wild roots...root beer

Shima aji, malabar spinach, seaweeds & spruce

 Dried corn sandie

 Lightly smoked onion, toasted onion mayonnaise,
pickled blueberry, grilled onion juice & lobster dashi gelee

Duck hearts, grilled roses with a purée of sour corn & foie gras fat

Tomato seawater with trout roe

Hay sorbet, dried apples & sencha tea

Sour quince curd with wild juniper & olive oil

Smoked beets with dried scallop

An ice cream of embers..birch branches, wintergreen, lime & mint.

Riverstead - July, 2014

A cold stew of chicken & geoduck clam

lightly smoked, clam cream, fermented fish juices, mandarinquat, eucalyptus

Leeks cooked in coals with king crab

then warmed in a vinegar of bonito & coconut oil.

Dressed with a gelatinous bouillon made from onions, turbot skins & Turkish towel

Photo by Bonjwing Lee

Strawberry sorbet 2008

Strawberries and their juice folded into a spicy pepper sorbet.

Pan forte of black olive, Sichuan pepper, olive oil...yogurt

A few dishes from 2011

Abalone, dried pork & shellfish, creamed Virginia ham fat

 


Cucumber, lemon thyme, frozen marshmallow, cured green strawberries, geranium

 


A soup of sprouted radish,  grapefruit, oyster & ulva

 


Risotto of squid without rice or dairy

 

Maine lobster, cream of the shells & roe, tomalley, consommé gel, raw oloroso

Photos by Bonjwing Lee