history's greatest day: volume 32

Wonderfully creative birthday meal tonight at Commis in Oakland. Thoughtful and inventive, with a great deal of restraint. I’m still trying to figure out what exactly I tasted. The menu (because the host kindly gave us one): pacific oyster with mustard cream, mousse of pea leaves dungeness crab in green anise bouillon, wilted sprouts and sea fennel semi-dried beetroot with steamed apples, hazelnuts and burnt honey poached farm egg with sweet and savory spices and potato grilled cod with artichoke and sauce of truffles from oregon, miner’s lettuce calf’s saddle roasted in salted butter, young green garlic and grasses cara cara orange pudding and sassafras ice parsnip mousse and parsley ice milk, oro blanco jelly with cocao nib Thanks for stopping by!