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phi ([personal profile] totient) wrote2007-09-01 12:31 am
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love and butter

Last night, [livejournal.com profile] miss_chance arranged dinner for six at Love and Butter in honor of [livejournal.com profile] infinitehotel's birthday. This was a brilliant idea for a host of reasons and a complete surprise to [livejournal.com profile] infinitehotel, who knew that there were such things as underground restaurants in the world but not that there were any around here. The chefs are exceptional and neither [livejournal.com profile] miss_chance nor I can think of a meal we've ever had that was better.

The menus on the web are incomplete: there are amuses-bouche and intermezzi and breads and supernumerary desserts and extensive wine suggestions (it's bring your own). Last night's meal ran with a tomato theme to amazing effect, which gave an awareness of the meal as a complete work as opposed to a collection of dishes.

An underground restaurant can be adventurous, and serving a set menu means the small dishes can get the attention they deserve. But what's really amazing about a place like this is that the menu can be a collaboration, worked out in the weeks before the meal, between the chefs and the diners. This works because the restaurant is small enough that this can be a single conversation, and because there are so few seatings.

Love and Butter
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Seatings by arrangement, but usually Saturday at 7:30pm

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2007-09-01 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
They really do rock.

[identity profile] scholargipsy.livejournal.com 2007-09-01 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
*seethes with envy*

That sounds marvelous. I am glad IH had such a terrific birthday surprise.

[identity profile] chaiya.livejournal.com 2007-09-02 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
That's my crew! :) I've been asked not to out them on LJ, but I'm inordinately proud of them.
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[personal profile] bryant 2007-09-09 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the review; we ate there tonight and it was more than lovely.