We wanted a small lunch before we went to Santa Fe for the Art Feast, so at around noon I toasted several pieces of whole grain bread (from Costco) and placed the coarse braunsweiger, Genoa, salami and gelbwurst on the table and plated a Rollmops herring with dill pickles and sliced onion and fetched a beer for a German lunch. I also freshened up the PPI cesar salad with a few more torn leaves of Romaine.
Then we were off to Santa Fe
Next year I hope they will return to serving wine.
The food was interesting, as always. My two favorites were the Palace Restaurant’s Stephen Wede’s Marlin sashimi and a foraged looking red Belgium endive leave on which was tossed several ingredients with a clear, delicious Riesling jelly and a sandwich made of a rich white chocolate ganache sandwiched between two layers of rich flourless chocolate Delice and Bishop’s Lodge’s offerings which included my favorite dish of a canapé of crab salad garnished with wasabi flavored fish eggs. Real crab and beautiful light green nearly translucent fish eggs.
We did see some interesting art also. Three nylon monofilament mesh screen made by a female artist from Colorado named Bolli that re-framed the space of a gallery like a Robert Irwin piece and some contemporary trunkas by a Tibetan artist featuring images of Mickey Mouse seated in meditation like the Buddha, by the name of Gagy or Gaby.
Art Feast is always fun because you get to taste food from restaurants you have never gone to and see art at galleries you do not usually go to.
After two hours of gorging on the food offerings, we drank a hot toddy at the Palace to get some warmth back into our bodies and then we drove back to Albuquerque
Bon Appètit
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