This past Tuesday my foodie friends and I went to a restaurant called Moto for a late night dinner. The 4 hour dinner consisted of about 18 courses of molecular gastronomy delight. The picture above is a dish called "Roadkill of Fowl". It's a small pile of braised duck leg, the blood is beets, there is a small gummy brain, the white trail of maggots is marshmellow and the flies in the lower left corner are black sea salt. Yeah...this place blew my mind.
Other highlights:
- a cuban pork sandwich rolled up to look EXACTLY like a cigar
- a white chocolate truffle with liquified popcorn inside. When you bite into it the popcorn flavor rushes into your mouth and also releases pop rocks which make it taste and feel like there is popcorn popping in your mouth.
- a dish called "Oil Spill" which was a large hunk of tuna and several pieces of edible trash, then the server pours in squid ink (oil) and pollutes the dish.
and my favorite
- a bacon flavored biscuit. Sounds fairly simple compared to the rest of the menu but is was by far the best tasting thing of the night. I refused to swallow it because it was so incredible, I actually caught Rob doing the same.
The meal also started with an edible menu, which was suprisingly tasty. This prompted several jokes of "can I see another menu please?" and "Do you have a takeout menu?"
Other highlights:
- a cuban pork sandwich rolled up to look EXACTLY like a cigar
- a white chocolate truffle with liquified popcorn inside. When you bite into it the popcorn flavor rushes into your mouth and also releases pop rocks which make it taste and feel like there is popcorn popping in your mouth.
- a dish called "Oil Spill" which was a large hunk of tuna and several pieces of edible trash, then the server pours in squid ink (oil) and pollutes the dish.
and my favorite
- a bacon flavored biscuit. Sounds fairly simple compared to the rest of the menu but is was by far the best tasting thing of the night. I refused to swallow it because it was so incredible, I actually caught Rob doing the same.
The meal also started with an edible menu, which was suprisingly tasty. This prompted several jokes of "can I see another menu please?" and "Do you have a takeout menu?"
