Recent dinners

3rd Course: Barbecued Beets
Smoked mussels, whey and hazelnut butter. Paired with Heron Pinot Noir, California, 2010.

The American Restaurant
Kansas City, Missouri
(November 6, 2011)

Dungeness crab

Orange from Valencia

shima aji

Images from service

Crisp sunchoke skin, sunchoke mousse, sunflower butter and yuzu

Beef with grasses

Images from service

Preserved carrot, with a spread of muscavado sugar and tonka bean

Ricotta mousse, mandarin, bitter cocoa, malt and sugared egg yolk

Burnt embers.

Images from service

Meyer lemon "curd", caraway milk, frozen and burnt meringue, mustard greens and walnut "dacquoise"

Raw sweet maine shrimp, wild ginger oil, angelica braised in apple juice, radish and chilled matsutake "cream"

Spiced bread with lamb liver

and an englishman!!

Images from tonights service

Sunchokes, preserved goose berries, black butter emulsion, thyme and dungeness crab.

Fall peas, spinach, lemon verbena, cilantro, nasturtium, green strawberry juice and yogurt.

Frosted geranium

Frosted geranium leaves, parsnip, chamomile, preserved cucumber and lemongrass

Images from tonights service

Apple, duck liver, angelica, hazelnut

Potato, egg, sea lettuce, kohlrabi, dill, chicken stock

Images from tonights service

Buttermilk, toasted milk ice cream, yeast, bitter almond, white pepper and celery root

Black cod, smoked anchovy cream, mushroom threads and pine infusion

Desserts from last night

Broken vanilla marshmallow, frozen cucumber ice, sorrel, hibiscus, olive oil and geranium

Cantaloupe, toasted farro, tumeric root, carrot, wild sassafras & wild ginger

Images from tonights service

Sweet corn enriched with egg, chicken liver, lovage and oats

Gazpacho of zucchini and green foliage

Lamb shoulder

Glazed in it's own stock & beet juice, malt, beets smoked and dried with licorice and elderberries. Underneath are beets in the style of Bolognese...tomato, beets, fennel, onion, lamb stock....etc, etc.

Hot & Cold morels

Cold morels lightly grilled over fire, chilled and coated in reduced cream.
Hot morels glazed in their own juices.

Flowers

Melon & Flowers
pink peony, pickled roses, artichoke juice, orange flower water meringue

Images from tonights service

Baby peas, enriched with scrambled egg mousse, vanilla, mint and wild pea flowers

Beef cheek, crispy tongue, grasses, hay, toasted elephant garlic and horseradish