Hello all,

We’re doing one last Liminal, not to be missed. This one is different: held squarely in the middle of Fall, it will mark a transition, not between seasons, but between states, coasts, staying & going, nesting & moving away.

The menu will focus on the Pacific Ocean and coastal woods, and specifically on our sweet west coast crab, sea urchin, and wild finds.

Liminal will be held at a secret location, a little-known San Francisco treasure that has been closed to the public for years.

Tickets are sold out. Thank you!

+ gin & juice: hendricks, fennel, lemon balm, cara cara
+ welcome: olive salad, black trumpet, chick pea fritter, spiced walnut
+ spring soup: ricotta dumplings, baby fennel, fiddlehead, saffron oil
+ magic salad: little city greens, borage flowers, wild onion, bergamot citronette
+ allium: crespelle, spring onion, cardoon, asparagus, marjoram cream
+ mushroom: pickled morel, chanterelle custard, maitake salad, lion’s mane
+ nettle gallette: andante minuet, dirty girl shallots, saba
+ chocolate cake: orange flower chantilly, candy cap caramel

+ black pepper and vanilla infused bourbon, sutton vermouth, orange bitters, elderflower, apple
+ house cured mackerel, fig, earlygirl jelly, black cherokee conserve
+ purslane, haricots verts, muscat and bronze grapes, almond, ground cherry
+ smoked sable brandade croquette, corn aioli, white cayenne
+ summer beans, sungold sauce, piccolo fino, fried shallot
+ duck confit, seared breast, cured yolk, duck consomme, nettle, chervil
+ belle de boksoon, apple and fig tarte tatin, grilled fig leaf creme fraiche

+ violet liqueur, gin, viola, ginger bug
+ medjool date, anise & rose jelly, fennel & parsley flowers, purslane, cress, rye
crisp
+ grilled sardine, fig leaves, ancho & espelette harissa, cilantro blossoms, fried
bread
+ little city leaves, cucumber, salad burnet, borage, padron pepper, pistachio &
lemon leaf
+ charred spring onion, ramp bulb confit, grilled new shallot, lebne, anise seed,
flatbread, nasturtium
+ watson spring lamb, braised and roasted, bing blood and pickled rainier cherries,
bintje potatoes, marjoram, morels
+ pine nut brioche cake, rosewater cream, arctic star nectarine, spring flame peach

December 5, 2009 ::  The first ever Liminal Feast, an artful meal marking the point between two seasons.

This first one is to winter, made of the bright spot of sideways light before the year’s shortest days.

Local game, city-grown herbs and flowers, and a tramp through the woods will be our starting point.

+ homemade fuji apple cider, pomegranate, quince
+ membrillo, hachiya persimmon, andante acapella, pistachio
+ true consommé, juniper, rose hips, nasturtium, lemon leaves, pine
+ manzanita bolete, matsutake, yellow woman beans, warren pear, fennel, thyme
+ grilled sweetwater oyster, yuzu, citrus, watermelon radish, smoked chile, chervil
+ roasted squab, leek, fennel, preserved lemon, chickweed, mizuna, curly cress, grilled chicories, walnut
+ rosemary panna cotta, honeycomb, grains of paradise & cocoa nib shortbread
+ blue bottle png tribal aromas
+ winter tea