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friends - IMG 0900
Bryan and tanks of beer - IMG 0899
Bianca and Leslie, blurry - IMG 0897
Debbie's birthday at Linden Street brewery in Oakland - IMG 1371
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The full menu + annotations. - IMG_1357
The damage (at least it's on a cute laundry ticket). - IMG_1353
Bonus third dessert: chocolates! - IMG_1351
Second dessert (b): lemongrass, kumquat, black sesame and ginger "anglaise." - IMG_1348
Second dessert (a): white chocolate mousse. - IMG_1346
First meat: pork belly. - IMG_1344
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Second seafood course: butter-poached lobster with peas and morels. - IMG_1341
First seafood course: sashimi of atlantic fluke. - IMG_1340
Second course (b): "degustation" of garden onions. - IMG_1339
Second course (a): foie gras with strawberries, celery and walnuts over brioche. - IMG_1338
First course: Oysters and caviar. - IMG_1337
2nd amuse bouche: salmon "coronets." - IMG_1336
A greenhouse to speed up the tomatoes. - IMG_1335
Compost! - IMG_1329
Every plot had a branded label. So orderly. - IMG_1328
It was very cool that they just had the garden open--no gates or doors or access control of any kind. I guess that's Yountville for ya. - IMG_1326
Run up to the main event: we walk through the garden across the street from the restaurant. They get a lot of their produce from this garden but given the variety they must buy a lot as well. - IMG_1325
Leslie anticipates the tasting on the super-pleasant deck. - IMG_1324
After being toodling about Napa a bit more, we headed north to do some wine tasting at Frog Leap.