feu de bois · une seule table

La Braise

menu du soir · cooked over embers · seven seats
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Pour commencer

Charred leeks in ash

14

Leeks buried whole in the dying fire, split at the table, hazelnut brown butter, cured egg yolk grated like snow.

Ember bread, smoked butter

9

Sourdough baked against the oven wall; butter smoked overnight over cherry wood, flaked salt, no apologies.

Beets from the coals, chèvre

13

Coal-roasted beets, warm goat cheese, burnt honey, rye crumb.

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De la braise

Côte de bœuf, binchotan

58

Dry-aged rib over white binchotan; rested as long as it cooked; bone-marrow jus, charred spring onion. For two, if you are wise.

Whole trout in vine leaves

34

Wrapped and laid on the embers until the leaves give up; verjus, fennel pollen, grilled lemon.

Celeriac cooked in salt crust

26

Cracked open like a geode; black garlic cream, crisped sage, oil pressed from our own grove.

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Pour finir

Cinders

12

Burnt-butter chocolate crémeux, charcoal tuile, smoked vanilla ice cream.

Firefruit

11

Whatever fruit the market gave us, grilled over the last of the coals; honey from the roof, sheep's yogurt.

Accord du sommelier

Five pours chosen nightly from small farms — tonight: a skin-contact white that tastes like the smoke is remembering an orchard.

42 · five glasses
Reserve the fire
La Braise · a fictional table · gallery of one hundred · Nº 099