PR for Speakeasy dinner.

In today’s Courier-Journal:

Surprise yourself at Speakeasy Supper

If you’re an adventurous diner who’s never been to a Speakeasy Supper, you owe it to yourself to experience one of these truly non-traditional meals.

Put on by Bon Vivant Savant, the “underground dinners” occur outside restaurants in surprise venues and with often wildly creative menus. Foods are typically prepared by restaurant chefs eager to experiment, plus wine is poured and described by experts throughout the meal.

The dinner set for 6:30 p.m. on March 23 (locations are disclosed 48 hours before the dinner and only to those with reservations) will be prepared by Ethan Ray and wife Sarah McGregor-Ray, both from the kitchen of the Seelbach Oakroom. Ray said the menu will blend sweet and savory flavors in unexpected ways.

“We’re using a lot of nontraditional applications, to say the least,” Ray said. “We want (diners) to be able to think they’d have never thought of eating some of these different foods and ingredients as a savory course or dessert course.”

And how. Have a look at the evening’s menu:

The salad course includes chocolate brioche, golden beet, olive powder, baby lettuce and saffron, followed by a seafood course of sea bass with potato, charred leek, carrot gel, chicken skin and vanilla emulsion.

An unusual fruit course features a candied apple encased in lime, rosemary apple cider and lime pop rocks, followed by a meat course of pork belly with “mustard butterscotch,” duck confit, mustard greens and maraschino cherry puree.

The meal concludes with a blue cheese “cake” with fruit cocktail and black walnut nougatine, plus an after-dinner “m(e)nt” of white and dark chocolates, sesame, menthol and wasabi. All courses are paired with appropriate beverages.

The all-inclusive cost is $75. For reservations, call Bon Vivant Savant at 287-2772.

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As of today there is still a few open seats available.

~ by theironicchef on March 14, 2009.