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Do This: L2O's New Degustation Menu

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Jan 16, 2009 5:45PM

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Laurent Gras keeps impressing us (and not just with this creation above, called "cloned strawberry") Yesterday L2O launched a six-course degustation menu called "Tête à Tête,"according to Gras, will explore "two single ingredients that when combined together have the potential to create a unique and powerful flavor that is unlike either of its individual parts." The six tasting portion-sized courses offered will progress from raw to cooked to dessert, and will be rotated out depending on seasonality.

We had to lift our jaw from the floor when we saw the cost of this new menu. At $90 per person given the quality of Gras' food and the accolades L2O has achieved in less than a year, this is nothing short of a budget buy.