Table of Contents
What: Aurum/Sobre Mesa six study course tasting celebration.
When: 5 p.m. March 9 at Aurum in Los Altos, 5 p.m. March 16 at Sobre Mesa (1618 Franklin St., Oakland).
Menu highlights: Corvina/hake ceviche, jerk stuffed quail, lamb osso buco and chai tea banana bread pudding.
Reservations: $150/particular person by way of Resy (back links: Sobre Mesa reservations, Aurum reservations). A coursed cocktail pairing incorporate on is an additional $65.
On the area, cooks Manish Tyagi and Nelson German have tiny in frequent other than their career. Tyagi created his Bay Place creds at substantial-finish Indian spots August 1 Five and Amber Dhara in San Francisco, when German labored his way up by way of New York’s high-quality eating scene, and appeared on Tv cooking level of competition “Top Chef.”
Both equally head up well-known Bay Region restaurants, but their spots are as distinctive as they appear. That is why a two-evening-only meal collaboration from the chefs is much more intriguing than most “special celebration meals” than land in Nosh’s inbox could possibly be. What’s the frequent ground among Tyagi’s Northern and Central Indian dishes and the African and Caribbean cuisine German serves at his Oakland destination, Sobre Mesa?
According to German, the foodstuff Tyagi and he make shares additional than we may possibly think. “A good deal of cuisines are ultimately the very same,” he explained, “or stem from identical influences that harness their individual tales and regional approaches,” for instance, how virtually each and every country looks to have its personal type of soup, stew or noodle dish.
In actuality, German stated, the Afro-Caribbean menu atSobre Mesa and Tyagi’s menu at his Los Altos place, Aurum, share a good deal when it will come to spices and substances, inspite of the crystal clear distinction involving their respective cultures. “When you lift the veil on these recipes,” Tyagi stated, “they are really incredibly intertwined and only the slightest adjustments on spice degrees different just one dish from the following.”
“With this collaboration, we want to emphasize how our cultures have numerous near connections,” German claimed. “When we ate each and every others’ food items, we sensed these kinds of familiar flavors even although we appear from distinctive cultures. This evening meal will exhibit how our cultures can be so intertwined. It is a wonderful point.” In a environment that feels significantly siloed, this virtually looks like a radical premise.
To be obvious, silos are not constantly a undesirable matter — after all, every person can locate “their people” now, any means to celebrate person heritage and ordeals are now much more obtainable than ever. But if the functions of the last number of a long time have taught us anything at all, it’s that staying in just a silo, devoid of regard to the entire world outdoors, can also be remarkably corrosive.
Possibly by reminding people that we share much more than we know when it comes to food items, these dinners can help split down some of those people walls, and can guide persons in seeing that our distinct cultures have significant connections. Or potentially I’m overthinking it, and this is just a delectable, two-aspect tasting menu event. That is wonderful, far too.
