Dégustation

NOT EVEN PUSCHLAVER SCHMUGGLERTRUNK CAN SPOIL OUR DÉGUSTATIONS

The Carleton Room, exquisitely elegant with its embroidered wallpaper and French provincial decor, offers fine continental cuisine, a special dégustation, as well as the hotel’s alternative cuisine—appetizer, salad, and main course totaling less than 650 calories.

Tours give a comprehensive overview of the life cycle of cacao plants and the production of chocolate (with dégustation!).

The bold, straightforward cheesiness of a good mac’n’cheese, the simple, eat-with-your-hands casualness of burgers and fried chicken are still part of our gastronomic makeup, even when we are sitting down to an elegant multicourse dégustation.

The beverage menu explained that its concoctions—“created using juicing, infusing, and brewing methods”—were specially designed for the evening’s dégustations.[…]While it’s true that the outsize prices of dégustations are the biggest markups in business, the demands that tasting menus place on diners—in cost, time, and attention—make the customers for restaurants featuring only them,[…]Now it’s common to find well-regarded fine-dining menus with less than half of Maccioni’s ideal, or in cases of the set-price dégustations I discuss in chapter 1, with no food choice at all.

Washintown was in for some dégustations like it had never expected.