Some new menu items:

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Langoustine and ants.

Green strawberries with cheese

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Things From Under The Ground.

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Wild duck brushed with rye soy and cooked slowly over fire.

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Clam pie

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Raw squid

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Chilled cucumber and green strawberries, sake and basil flowers

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I would try this.

Flattened Chocolate Dick

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OK, it's really: Paste of sweet cep mushroom coated in chocolate

Man, that stuff just doesn't look appetizing to me. I might try the duck, the green strawberries with cheese, and the chilled cucumber dish.

I've had quite a few exotic dishes. Pre-kids, we'd hit up amazing restaurants that served nine course pairing meals, meaning the food was paired with a specific wine.

At first, reading the menu would gross me out. I was like "I am NOT eating THAT". So the chef always had dishes for lame people like me. Funny enough, I'd taste my wife's dish and would be completely blown away.

After dining at two restaurants and realizing I was acting the fool, I finally decided to not read the menu, trust the chef and enjoy. And man, did I enjoy!

Regardless, it never ceases to amaze me how closed minded Americans are towards food. They'll happily eat multiple McDonalds burgers and fries per meal, but won't taste herb crusted bone marrow with a wine reduction sauce.

I've never tried bone marrow but I've been told repeatedly that it's ****ing amazing.

There are so many dishes that are amazing in this world. Which reminds me! Hit me up here or on FB tomorrow and I'll send you an amazing recipe for a pasta dish we learned at a bed and breakfast in the Tuscan hillside of Greve in Chianti from a Florentine master chef.

Homemade pasta (I use a manual pasta maker) an amazing cream sauce with soft poached egg drizzled over the dish before serving. It's awesome!

That sounds amazing! I'll hit you up for it for sure. Thank you!

No worries, pal! I meant to take pictures of the zugu, meatballs and Italian sausage and lasagne I made for Thanksgiving but after the long day of cooking, forgot. My apologies.

I'd love to make zugu as well. Authenticity and all. The wife has been trying to get me to do a chicken Alfredo style lasagna for her. I need to get that made as well.