Sunday 5 February 2012

Love Will Keep Us Together, Love Will Tear Us Apart


Love Will Keep Us Together
Love Will Tear Us Apart.

OkSUPPERCLUB Valentines dinner @ the Elite
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Dinner $35.00
Oyster bar $2.50 per oyster



Reception with oyster raw bar starting at 6:30
bring your loonies and toonies

Dinner at 7:30

call The Elite 250-492-3051 to buy tickets

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The Menu

I

Smoked beet soup,
crispy Le Vieux Pin egg, 
seawater “tears”, 
pickled radish and herb salad, 
2 year old albacore tuna "botarga"

The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip...
The beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma; the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker drilling desperately for rubies.
The beet was Rasputin's favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

II

Cinnamon & bitter chocolate braised  
Okanagan's Finest Angus Beef tongue and tail, 
smoked chili pepper puree,
sweet corn grit cake,
braised romaine

A little raunchy...tongue and tail, bitter sweet, and spicy.  Like an affair that is intense, burns fast and hard then ends less than ideally with hearts being broken.  Look for unctuous textures
III

melt your cold, cold heart – 
nitro oxheart plum
sour cream gel
hazelnut sponge
-hot and cold, sweet and tart, crisp and soft, this dish is all about contradiction
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
LAST WORDS: THE FINAL JOURNALS OF WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS


Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it’s much the same.
THE BLIND ASSASSIN, MARGARET ATWOOD



see you there!

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