Food Pr0n: moto, Take #1

By L. Stolpman in Food on Mar 30, 2009 3:20PM

Designed to look like a Jimmy Dean sausage patty and egg, the sausage is actually a crab cake and the egg is a coconut and fruit combination. From moto.

$In the background, you see a corked beaker containing a suspended piece of salmon on a fork. That salmon is being smoked with thyme smoke (check back tomorrow to see how it is done). In the dish, you\'ll find all the remaining ingredients to complete a bagel and lox dish.$ $This is a dessert that chef Roche is perfecting. What\'s inside the white tube? I found out after Chef Roche asked me, \"How about I just smash it with my hand?\"$ $A pumpkin seed dessert. We\'ll look closer at this later this week, as well.$

Designed to look like an underwater scene, this dessert is infused with flavor.

Cuban sandwich that looks like a Cuban cigar.

The ash is created with white and black sesame seeds.

Slow-cooked barbecue beef short-rib with beans, cornbread and freeze dried cole slaw.

The bun: two cookies. A chocolate patty topped with a banana slice resembling cheese.

$Frozen, liquefied graham cracker surrounded by chocolate with a wick. S\'more bomb.$

Edible menu on that corn chip with guacamole and a pipette of salsa.

We recently spent a Saturday afternoon in the kitchen at moto. Chef Homaro Cantu set things on fire for us (video this afternoon!) while Chef Ben Roche created and destroyed a dessert for our benefit (pictures of that this week). We also captured images of a new bagel and lox menu item and how the salmon gets smoked right at your table (keep watching for those, too). For now, enjoy some images of moto's cuisine and be sure to return for behind the scene pictures.

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