This happened at Healthy Soba IKI (一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六, 七, 八, 九, 十, 十一, 十二, 十三, 十四, 十五, 十六) recently. It's a half day event involving a bunch of stuff away their regular menu that happens now and then featuring soba that is a one off, sides that they don't usually serve and wine. This one was for their foie gras soba.
Most of the menu items aren't regular stuff obviously. Maybe except for the burrata which is sometimes available but not on the menu and you could get them if you asked. We ordered one of everything.
Starting with smoked salmon on little crispy slices of baguette.
Some Iberico salami. Top one's chorizo.
Their cheese moriawase was awesome. There was some stinky Brie, sweet nutty Manchego and a Brillat Savarin which was drizzled with honey. The latter tasted like a blue, was all white and very creamy. Love those sweet grapes too.
Got the larger burrata today. 300g. Great combination of flavours from the salt, pepper and aromatic toasted buckwheat seeds with the olive oil on the creamy burrata.
We did the pork rilettes as well. Salty, fatty and flavourful these were.
Our first time getting the pan fried smoked duck from the shop. Chunky, meaty and smoky with a lot of bite.
What we were looking forward to today was the foie gras soba. I'll keep this short. Roasted red & yellow peppers were tangy, sweet and tender to the point they dissolved in the mouth. Nicely done those. There's a layer of foie gras puree on the soba which was covered with what I would describe as a deliciously sweet onion jam/jelly. Counter to the sweet from the peppers and onion was the tsuyu.
Never had soba like this before. Am glad we came here for it today.
Finished with their Basque burnt cheese cake. The first of its kind we've ever had was from Olivia. First impressions along with the bar was set from there henceforth. We're seldom if ever impressed by the others.
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