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Sometimes strange can be surprisingly satisfying, as proven by your surrender to temptation, aka watching and actually enjoying "Norbit". Thrillist has done the leg work to help you find a way to keep it as weird as you please by giving you this list of somewhat unusually ingretient'd items.
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Done up shabbily chic with chipped paint walls, gas lamp-style chandeliers, and lots of rough, exposed wood, RB's sick of Oakland getting all the foodie hype. The chef/owner (formerly of Venus and Happy Belly) is claiming a deep list of fresh fruit-packed artisan cocktails, and whole hog, Cali-style dishes like crispy fried pig ears, and grilled Lucky Dog Ranch Beef Heart, which pairs beautifully with some '67 Safe as Milk. Get more delicious deets here: http://thrl.st/9rBPLb
Aside from new grub items like the Wagyu beef Reuben (with slow braised cabbage and horseradish mustard), Carneros' chef and bar manager've been playing around with a jumbo tank of liquid nitrogen, creating smooth ice cream, martinis with frozen olives that melt while you drink, and steaming lemon/pisco cocktails with shattered raspberries (sure, blueberries have more antioxidants, but did they really have to find out over Facebook?). Get more delicious deets here: http://thrl.st/9cx87C
Evocative of a dutiful housewife's handiwork but executed with fresh Cali twists, the menu includes a Berkshire pork chop with wilted watercress and cherry vinaigrette, Petrale sole n' gnocchi's done with a prosecco-almond sauce, and the resto's namesake lobster thermidor that's cooked up with tarragon, mushrooms,etc., and finished with a bechamel of brandy...you're a fine bechamel (you're a fine bechamel), what a good bechamel you will be (such a good bechamel). Not to be outdone, the cocktail list packs everything from Harvey Wallbanger variations (made with sparkling wine) to the "Charles and Ra" (gin, orange blossom, grapefruit bitters, egg white, and tonic), while a bold dessert menu's highlighted by "Coffee, Cigarettes, and Doughnuts" -- a diabolical little plate that features a white chocolate cigarette filled with tobacco-infused custard replete with nicotine (for real), which, luckily for you, hasn't yet proven to be addictive. Get more delicious deets here: http://thrl.st/9uACy7
Former French Laundry chef de cuisine Corey Lee (Thomas Keller's go-to dude) makes his first solo mission with Benu, a highly calculated, super-subtle high-end resto complete with wine lockers installed for regulars who want to bring their own vino. The menu's got a la carte deliciousness (a beef rib steak with an oxtail marmalade), and a 15-course tasting menu that includes "thousand-year-old" quail egg, shark's fin soup and sea urchin n' pork belly, and'll take around three hours, but be wary, as that's exactly what the opening credits told Gilligan. Get more delicious deets here: http://thrl.st/cH8dZn
Unlike MSF's guest-chef pop-ups, Commonwealth's kitchen will be run solely by Bar Tartine alum Jason Fox, with a Cal-Med rooted menu that'll include pre-meal kombu-dusted, house-made potato chips with a malt vinegar foam (in lieu of bread n' butter), a marrow-stuffed squid entree with tamarind pork/shelling beans/black garlic/cilantro, and for dessert, the El Duderino, a take on a White Russian with a genoise cake topped with candied coffee beans, house-made coffee ice cream, a raw milk mousse, and diluted vodka set in gelatin to create tiny glorified Jell-o shots, not to be confused with glorified Jell-o shops, aka what Bill Cosby calls any place that sells food. Behind the bar'll be about 40 wines, half domestic, and a trio of bottled beer, one Japanese, one Belgium and one American, also the requisite trio needed to really ethnic-up that blonde joke. Get more delicious deets here: http://thrl.st/9gyFFv
