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| - I'd eaten at Toque! on a trip about eight years ago, and I was excited to be back! We decided against the famous tasting menu, having indulged so much during our trip, but our server was absolutely fantastic. He even helped pair half-glasses of wine with each course that I had, which was perfection. I started with a champagne tasting, just to get going.
Then he paired a white wine with my foie gras starter, with apple purée, shiitake mushrooms, and buckwheat crumble; it was so rich I couldn't even finish it. It was seriously too much! I pretty much never eat foie gras, but I felt like I was in France and had to indulge.
My husband's dinner was a lamb dish, and it was beautifully plated! He enjoyed it, especially all of the mushrooms used in so many of the dishes. I had the duck magret, with hedgehog mushrooms, carrots, Tokyo turnip, borlotti bean purée, Madeira sauce. Duck is another indulgent thing I don't get to eat very often. This one was absolutely beautiful too. Delicious!
For dessert, we had Peruvian chocolate dish with sorbet. It's rotated off the menu, but I loved how it looked like bark with plants growing from it. They do a good job with molecular gastronomy at Toqué! It was really an incredible meal.
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