A few months ago, Sarah showed us some photos taken by James Yu, a former Slashfood writer, of his visit to French Laundry. Now Kevin, a Slashfood reader, has shared his own experience at Thomas Keller's world class restaurant with us. Though a few of the items are duplicate, I thought the majority of pictures (and individual courses) were unique enough that we could afford to take another peek. His tab? Over $600 per person, which included the extensive tasting menu, drinks, tax and tip.
In case you aren't aware, Thomas Keller recently won the title of Outstanding Restaurateur at the 2007 James Beard Foundation Awards, and French Laundry was named 4th best restaurant in the world by Restaurant Magazine, scoring as "Best of the Americas."
Needless to say, this is pretty much the ultimate in food porn. I've included a few more of Kevin's photos after the jump, but you can visit his entire collection (with full descriptions of what you are looking at) at his website via the 'read' link below.
Above: Yukon Gold Potato "Mille-Feuille"
Above: Scottish Salmon Coronets
(Image credit and special thanks to Kevin!)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-23-2007 @ 11:47AM
beanspants said...
anyone remember mickey and the beanstalk, where mickey & pluto have to share a pea, and mickey sliced the the pea so thin, he could see through it?
Anyways, the overarching message was that the thinly-sliced pea represented poverty.
apparently that message was lost on the radish (is that what those are?) cutter.
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5-23-2007 @ 12:10PM
Bob Mc said...
For about 5% of that, you can go to Keller's other Yountville restaurant Ad Hoc. It's still very good and definitely a better deal.
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5-23-2007 @ 3:51PM
kevin said...
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This is Kevin, the poster of the linked blog. I've been to Ad Hoc and Bouchon as well, though my meal at Ad Hoc was closer to 10% than 5% of French Laundry. It is indeed a great restaurant, though a completely different experience than dining at the Laundry.
See: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=4699639&blogID=249151057
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5-24-2007 @ 8:07AM
TetsujinWave said...
Excellent work. You make me wish I'd blogged my visits to Jean-Georges and Daniel last year.
Any picture tips? I thought many restaurants would be a little wary of that--but your pictures are fantastic. Also, what did you have to do to arrange kitchen tours?
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5-24-2007 @ 2:52PM
kevin said...
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Thanks. I may be doing a food trip to NY this winter. I'll be sure to visit all the Michelin 3-stars as well as Masa, and maybe Daniel and WD-50.
As for the photos, I haven't had a problem in any restaurant so far. I do not use flash, which makes snapping away a lot less intrusive. Also it helps to have a camera that's good in low-light; I have a Fuji FinePix F30.
For the kitchen tours, I just talk to the maitre d'; he should take care of you. Though I will say that I would wait until the restaurant is less busy to go in there.
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3-23-2008 @ 4:54PM
mergenius said...
Here's the link to French Laundry on my new blog: http://www.yi-ren.net/kevineats/2007/05/french-laundry-yountville-ca.htm
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