Borago supremo!

Although we tend not to repeat the places that we go to or the places where we eat, Borago is one that we wanted to go back to for sure. We were offered either a 16 plate or a six plate blind tasting menu. The six plate meal just did not seem to be enough so we went with the 16!  In hindsight maybe 12 plates is our limit.  We visited this restaurant two years ago when we were last in Santiago.  At that point I did the wine pairing and Leslie did the juice pairing with our dinners.  Even though they are not full glasses of wine and juice  it was  too much for us to consume.  This time I only had two glasses of wine and Leslie had one glass of rose and that was all we had. It did not disappoint the second time as the food was excellent, the service impeccable and the atmosphere welcoming.

Front door, welcome!

The restaurant is actually a very large space. It is open and a certain amount of distance between each table

Leslie had the best view of the kitchen and of Mr. Mustache

We were given a pamphlet which gave us a pictorial explanation of the restaurants theme

The first two dishes were a tad bit messy

The last time we were in Santiago I got to eat the giant barnacle, its so succulent. This presentation had giant barnacle meat on the cracker as  ceviche and a milk of the Tiger (leche de Tigre) as a soup inside the Barnacle shell

As a homage to Van Gogh sunflowers. This dish had sunflowers that were cooked over an open flame on the inside of the bowl and a broth from giant mushrooms served over top of that.

Pieces of the giant mushroom were skewered on these leaves which were smoldering with some hot coals on the interior of the plate

This dish had some tasty mushrooms that were placed inside of a bladder of a large seaweed. That Was Then placed on an open flame and grilled so that the mushrooms were cooked with the seaweed juice and the heat from the open flame

This is a duck breast that is coated in Honey and Beeswax. It is macerated which is a strange term for a way of tenderizing meat.

Here is the duck breast that is hidden underneath the beet leaves. And a tasty sauce of blackberry juice is painted on the plate

This was the first of the dessert dishes and the 14th dish of the dinner.  It is charred marshmallows in the shape of a sheep so it is the black sheep. Inside is a tasty sheep's milk ice cream with some cherries. The cherries were slightly macabre as when you dug into the inside it suddenly got all red.

Black Sheep down

The kitchen is a beehive of activity

We had a variety of servers and occasionally they were people from the kitchen that came out to service our plate. Those were the most interesting interactions as these were people that were actually involved in creating the dish

This is an inverted creme brulee. The top of the dishes actually a rose water sugar structure that we cracked open to get to the foamed desert herb mixture on the inside

I have broken the barrier and gotten to the tasty desert herb foamed mixture

Two very satisfied customers