Opaque

[brokkentwolf]

Recently, I was watching a program on the Travel Channel called "Extreme Eateries" that talked about a peculiar dinning experience in San Francisco called "Dining in the Dark" at a restaurant called "Opaque". I had read that the restaurant was pricey but heck... you only live once

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[megadog]

I recommend that you read The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace. It's a series of wonderful short stories about food and eating.

In one, there is the Restaurant of Light and Air - perfectly named, for that is all it serves. It's somewhere you go to be seen - and where the expectation of your 'meal' is as profound an experience as the food would have been (if it ever got served).

Methinks your 'Opaque' might have been created as a mirror-image of this place.

[hossblacksilver]

Didn't the health department shut that one down, something about not properly refrigerating the light and air before prep. j/k ;)

[luphinus]

Yeah, I saw that too on some show. Looked fun. But price is a barrier.

[vermillionfox]

They featured it on an episode of Hell's Kitchen a few seasons ago and one of the CSI shows had a murder take place in a similar setting.

Sooooooo, what *did* you have? =O.o=

[brokkentwolf]

The menu had two choices of salad, three main entres and two deserts. Both Dog and I had the same thing:

There was a small apreritif - vol-a-vent which was a small pastry with a balsamic vinegar reduction. Then came the salad that consisted of arugula and other leafies seasoned with slices of apple and walnuts in a vinaigrette. An unexpected course were slices of various vegetables including sweet peppers, cucumber slices, green beans and asparagus and three dipping sauces, a type of ranch, a curry based one and my favorite was a wasabi aoli. The main course consisted of mashed potatoes, asparagus and a filet that was seared to perfection with a grand marnier reduction. Desert consisted of a dark chocolate brownie with a side of ice-cream. :9~

[vermillionfox]

I could definitely go for the last part. Chaaaaawklit..... *rolls over*

Though I ran across something recently that likely you would love as well foodwise. "Choward's Violet Mints". They're little mints low in sweetness and taste moderately of violet flowers.

[roby_panther]

Sounds like a really good meal. Is the concept of it that it's supposed to allow you to focus more on things like scent, texture, as taste, without the preconceptions that visual cues tend to give you?

[shep_shepherd]

Sounded appealing until I came across the following line on the website: "3 course prix fixe meal."

Why not just say fixed price? With allusions to pretentiousness like that, it's not a place for me, I'm afraid.

[lupine52]

They have a simular restaurant in Montreal too named Onoir. http://www.onoir.com/ The idea has some appeal but since its something I probably could duplicate if I tried I don't find it so interesting. Still now if I did the eating wearing some sorta night vision goggles and eat in spooky green that might be worth it to me.