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Here’s the Scoop from the Gabby Gourmet Restaurant Show on Saturday, June18, 2011.
We were at Aspen Food and Wine Festival for the umpteenth year and what fun.
We broadcast from the press room at the St. Regis Hotel. It is all tradition.
Update from the Rose tasting at Elway’s last week. These are the wining roses and are available at Elway’s Cherry Creek in a flight or by the glass.
These actually were my favorites-wow!!!
The 3 wines that were added to wine list as a flight and individually are:
CHATEAU SOUCHERE, Rose de Loire, Cabernet Franc, Loire Valley, France
KRACHER, Illmitz, Zweigelt, Austria
ETUDE, Pinot Noir, Carneros, California
The flight is 9.00 for a taste of all three.
The wines are 9.00 per glass individually
We had a divine-heavenly—dinner at the bar at Barolo Grill. It’s the place to be if you can snag a seat. Sian and Ryan took care of us-royally-and a bit of kibitz from Blair Taylor too. The wines were amazing and so is the bread. Then we had an amuse, then soft shell crab, bacala, a fabulous romaine Caesar salad, a salad of arugula, pears, candied hazelnuts and more. And then we had the ravioli—an English pea ravioli with ricotta and egg yolk-and the mushrooms tagliatelle-both are outrageous. The entrees of halibut and guinea hen were beyond outrageous. And then we had a strawberry tart with chocolate and a white and dark chocolate torte. It was perfect.
We stopped by the Egg and I on Leetsdale and had a delightful breakfast-and the company of Ed Novak—we both had omelets but different ones-they are huge with toast or muffin, and fruit and salsa and more.
Dinner at Bistro Vendome was just fabulous. First the patio-so beautiful, serene, hidden in the back, friendly and divine is the place to be in the summer. Our wine, food, and service were perfect. We had French bread in a bag, an amuse of tomato asparagus soup that was amazing, and then delicious frog legs with artichokes and the salad with greens, fried egg and bacon to start. Then we had crepes, mussels, my favorite the amazing trout, and another favorite of roast chicken with cauliflower in a copper pot. Desserts were an amazing tart tatin, and sorbet-and coffee—and again, a super fun rose. It is a real treat here.
We went to Argyll for lunch and loved the patio—no sun!!! and perfect weather. We had the mussels and the grilled salmon sandwich that comes with couscous-the mussels come with fries---and we all get great potato chips with malt on them. It was fun.
We went to Row 14 for dinner. The place is super looking-we had really super service too. We had the burrata panzanella salad, the compressed Crenshaw fruit salad and then the lamb cigars, duck crepes, salmon, and sea bass. Then the dessert was lemon tart.
The Gabby dinner at Street Kitchen had to be one of the top dinners ever. It was amazing and incredible. The food, drinks, service, and each detail is so Mary-where perfection reigns in everything she does.
We started with dim sum, vegetable tempura, and STK crab Rangoons with chilled pear sake. Then came All sorts of divine sushi with hot sake. The next course was a marvelous salad with sesame vinaigrette and a blushing Geisha cocktail. The noodles were amazing: char key teow, Pad Thai and Singapore noodles with a divine rose. More still with miso glazed beef short ribs,. Thai roasted chicken, black bean veggie stir fry and STK fried rice with cabernet. End with Melaka, banana fritters, mango sticky rice and Vietnamese coffee crème caramel and Asian eyes dessert cocktail. WOWWY-WONDERFUL-DIVINE-WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE THIS NIghT.
The Hot Rocks Grill event at Elway’s Cherry Creek was awesome. The 14 grills and chefs were so terrific and each dish was oh so good. And the fans had a ball-food, wines and drinks-and the VIP tent was awesome too. It was one great event. Congratulations to them.
We stayed for dinner to celebrate our anniversary and had a divine time. We had a glass of the winning rose and then we shared Caesar salads and tuna tartar. Entrees were lots of salmons, a crab, and a chicken-and fries and potato chips too. And the desserts were everywhere-the chocolate cake, twinkie, chocolate chip cookies, crème brûlée, fruit and key lime pie. Awesome night and even the valets are awesome.
NOW on to the Radio show for 6/18 - Aspen Food and Wine......
Guests:
Duskie Estes- Zazu in Santa Rose CA
Danny Meyer - Union Square Hospitality Group.
Sabato Sagaria- Little Nell- Co host today!
Claudine Pepin
Drew Nieporent-Myriad restaurant group- Nobu
Brian Mayfield- Kitchenaid and cook for the cure
Michelle Buster- Forever Cheese --spanish goat cheese
Marc Stroobandt- master beer sommelier Stella Artois
Elizabeth Woessner - teaching cheese and wine pairing at Cook St
Mariola Varona Bayolo-- vintner from Spain brought wonderful Albarino
from Martin Codax
Ignatius Chan - Iggy's restaurant in Singapore and sommelier
Year 29 .....time goes so fast!
Amazing group here in Aspen. Danny has been to F & W for 21 years, Drew has been coming since 1989!!
Drew- amazing film about our chef called A Matter of Taste. It is about their chef, Paul Liebrandt Chef of Corton ...features Drew, thomas keller....and others....and is available on HBO
Also a doc about Danny Meyer called "The Restauranteur"
about Eleven Madison and Tabla.....amazing talent came through those restaurants.....lots of James Beard award winners!!!
Drew and Danny talking about loyalty and how to focus on customers coming into the restaurant....
Brian Mayfield- Kitchen Aid
You know it as a stand mixers.....founded in 1906! brand name came from one of the inventor wifes....that mixer was " great kitchen aid"
lots of cool color for the mixers
Cook for the Cure- benefits to breast cancer....$10Million raised so far....benefits Komen for the cure
unique serial plates....pass them on to someone and follow the story...Jacques Pepin is the artist this year.
Michele Buster-
imports lots of amazing cheeses lomo ...lardo....
Duskie-
only woman competing at the Cochon contest.....she wants you to vote for her ....GIRL POWER.
get tix at: www.cochon555.com
raises pigs mongolito pigs and now raising red waddle pigs
what is the difference in these pigs...how do they taste different....bring it back to heritage and smaller farm.....higher fat content. This supports small rancher and butchers.....come back and a great way to be sustainable!!!
Marc
Amazing beers...Hoegaarden, Leffeblonde, paired with great cheeses and chocolates...beer is a surprising complement to many foods that we dont' think about....beer is to be appreciated just like wine.
Mariola- 9th generation wine maker.....albarino is a white grape that has a 900 yr history.... somewhat like a sauvignon blanc and a pinot grigiot
fantastic wines and a charming charming woman!!
Iggy- own restaurant Iggy in singapore....#27 in world of restaurants internationally Here with the singapore tourism board.
what is singapore cuisine? street food, some Malaysian, thai, very much fusion asian profile. brought back 2 cases of dom at Costco!!...loves that low dollar
thinks that asian wine palate likes more sweet and more delicate choices
Loves the beef in the states!!
all guests agree that the cuisine is so global.....street food, wine from everywhere....
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