come over.
your presence is mandatory. shoes are optional. the radishes are buttered. the olive oil is absinthe-colored. figs just came around the market. we need you.
help us tear this bread apart. what are your thoughts on violet-flavored balsamic? an alert that the banter will be lively: the cooks are fueled on rico's vegetarian burritos and probably a half cup or more of hot sauce.
we need you because food looks best when it is eaten. the loveliest dish is an empty one.
we'll feed you things like bay scallops in bourride with a sliver of roasted pepper. bourride? a homemade aioli expertly combined with a warm pour of leftover shrimp and lobster stock. (thanks, dot, for enlightening me).
my table wishes for people. it's true. it told me.
we've got all this summer produce. it can be distracting. intoxicating, even. we have a salad to share with you: baby romaine, raw white corn, shaved zucchini and summer squash, cherry tomatoes, and a few slivers of very nice pecorino, dressed with nothing more than lemon zest, juice, and the best olive oil in the house.
and we've got pasta dough! made with seven egg yolks! from the brilliant thomas keller, transposed by dot from his french laundry cookbook.
we wish we had enough of it to make a life-sized nest for you. or a wig for dashing about town.
nevertheless, we might ask you to help.
your reward will be handsome: those homemade noodles tossed with morel mushrooms, butter, fresh parsley, and a few spoonfuls of the pasta cooking water. pepper, please.
just to cleanse your palate (or maybe to give us an excuse to serve you two desserts), we'll serve you homemade olive oil gelato with blackberries doused in the smoothest white balsamic east of italy.
there are still butterscotch budinos with sweet sea salt and cold pressed bolivian coffee with cinnamon and cream. feel the love yet?
stay late. sing a song. smoke a clove. spin in circles. just come over.
notes
* find thomas keller's seven yolk pasta dough here.
* a recipe for olive oil gelato that beats all the rest here.
* i urge you to make butterscotch budinos. molly of orangette's recipe here.