Dinner at XIV

Tonight we were treated to an amazing dinner with Kenny and Aly at XIV (that's fourteen). Very unique dining experience. The serving style is both small plates and family style. For every dish you choose, each person at the table gets a small plate of that order. We had 11 small plates that night. I took a picture of every single one (thanks in part to Kenny for reminding me!). The lighting was dim, so the pictures don't do the works of art justice. We started with the Nantucket bay scallops tempura, cauliflower, passion fruit, almonds.

Followed by the dungeness crab springroll, avocado, cumin, roasted almond.

This was a special that day. A cavatelli, with truffle, and a cheese I can't remember, but it was really tasty. Cary's favorite.

Black cod, spaghetti squash, matsutake mushrooms, foie gras dashi.

Jidori chicken, truffled mac and cheese, caramelized onion sauce.

Liberty duck, seared foie gras, cornbread, spinach, lavender honey jus.

Angus rib cap, chanterelles, haricot verts.

I think this was the venison, but I am not 100% sure. I should have taken notes.

Aged mimolette, apple, chamomile foam, juniper shortbread. The chamomile foam really tasted like chamomile. What you can't see is that under the foam, is a little divot in the dish with a spoonful of gelee.

Lemongrass custard, cola, buttermilk, sweet potato- yuzu mochi (so yummy).

Bitter chocolate cream, mozzarella ice milk, elderflower, violet.

Overall, it was a great dining experience, excellent food, and best of all, really great company. Aly and Kenny, thank you for this very special dinner. We will never forget it.