This evening we had the pleasure of checking out Michael Laiskonis's new Dessert Bar - which has been operating for about 4 1/2 months in the Recolte Bakery after hours.
We rushed like mad to get there for our 7 pm reservation - were only about 5 minutes late - then got the reminder of my 7:30 reservation on my phone! So had a chance to walk around the neighborhood a bit. Noted the roadies outside the Jackson Brown concert happening next door.
Started with a cup of tea - no milk this time - an oolong.
Neglected to get a picture of the menu - we asked Micheal to just give us chef's choice.
Carrots and peas. A pea crumble, carrot sorbet and browned butter
Yuzu tartlet - ginger cream - the candied shiso was the perfect touch.
One of my favorites - Butter Popcorn choux
These 3 were the 'main courses' - salted caramel theme, hazelnut theme and black sesame theme. I didn't get the details down - suffice it to say they were all quite amazing.
and of course the magnardises - pistachio financier, a caramel filled cookie and a PDF (grapefruit perhaps - I've forgotten)
Bianca and I - quite replete!
