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Otherworldly Cuisine SB’s most expensive and dazzling dinner out
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lick your heels three times and whisk away to the otherworld of The Silver Bough, where culinary magic is being spun right in our backyard. (And break out the black card. The all-inclusive, 15-plus course dinner with cocktails and wine pairings is a staggering $550.) Here, behind a secret door, in a curtained room, you will be seated with seven other guests maximum at a Brazilian granite chef ’s table in a kitchen where the senses are awakened by unique creations for the eye as well as the palate.
Mastery is revealed over several hours by chef/owner Phillip Frankland Lee, his partner/wife/pastry chef Margarita Kallas-Lee, and their well-orchestrated team. It’s a gustatory show in three acts (sea/land/dessert). Even the name is a tasty confection. The Silver Bough, in Irish mythology, is a doorway to the land of the gods. Mortal guests in this land watch each labor-intensive, Lilliputian course being crafted while learning about the best of the best ingredients in detail. Yes, there is spiny lobster, caviar, and an extraordinary amount (continued)
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