Thursday, September 30, 2021

30 September 2021 Lunch at Auberge St Remy

 


Lunch may be an overstatement.  We estimate 15 courses in this gastronomic fiesta.  


Welcome to your tasty experience


Fanny is personally involved


Excited a bit?


One of dozens of plates that we cycled through


The dining room is tiny with only six tables


The first round was served on olive tree wood.  Here is a crab puff and a tuna snack.


More snacks on the big olive vine,  Everything on this first course made it to the favorites list.


We were given a wooden knife to use on our artisanal butter


The butter was shaved off of this puck of butter.  The knife spun around the center pole and thin slices of butter came off


The butter was placed on more olive tree wood


Round two:  A langoustine tail with a tasty sauce 


Round three:  tomato sorbet with seaweed


Here is the close up 


Round 4:  Another tomato stuffed with lemon, lime and pepper



The stuffed tomato's innards.  This item was a fan favorite


Round five:  Artichoke with Galere shrimp and black garlic


Round Six:  a cappuccino with the shrimp sauce 


This is just preparation for round seven


Getting bigger!  It's a towel for us to clean our hands off


Round Seven:  Caviar with honey served the traditional way on the meat of your hand


Round Eight:  A tasty fish wrapped in zucchini flowers and served with a eight hour reduction of carrots, fennel, tarragon and vinegar with zucchini foam and zucchini pasta on the side.  Also got votes.


A mustache bun


A mystery juice...we all tried to guess.  I guessed mead, Leslie guessed Kombucha and Laura Apricot Juice.  We were all wrong, it was melon juice mixed with white beer,


Round Nine:  A cold goat cheese bar with more goat cheese and black olive crumbles to dip into


Love this embroidery  


Round Ten:  Crunchy Caramel, strawberry and fig from the chef's garden


Here is the other chef garnishing round ten


Round 11:  Chocolate de l'Opera smiling up at me


Round Eleven part two, or round twelve?


Round Eleven part three or round thirteen.  A crème Brule


Round Eleven part four or round fourteen:  sobacha with cardamom