at Jimmy's #43, 43 East 7th Street (downstairs), New York City
Added By: Clay
5-course dinner featuring sour beers and chocolate.
Amuse: Hungarian sour cherry soup topped with creme fraiche chantilly infused with cherry lambic.
-- Pairing: A dry kriek.
Salad course: Roasted heirloom beets on a bed of mixed greens, endive, and arugula, sprinkled chopped hazelnuts pan-fried in undeodorized cocoa butter and dusted with cocoa powder, with a mock-Champagne vinaigrette made using sour beer (instead of vinegar).
-- Pairing: The same beer for the dressing.
Small plate: Southern cornbread muffin topped with braised collards and red chard with bacalao, spiced with chipotles in adobo.
-- Pairing: TBD.
Main Course: Flank steak rollatini - dry-rubbed butterflied flank steak stuffed with goat cheese and radicchio. Side: Yukon Gold garlic smashed potatoes.
-- Pairing: TBD.
Dessert: Milk chocolate caramel sauce over vanilla ice cream with roasted apple "confitti."
-- Pairing: Lindeman's Faro Lambic