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 Post subject: The Keller Gut Check
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:20 am 
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:D Mid-July She & I will be celebrating our 20th & my 62nd by sampling Keller’s trio in the Napa area: Ad Hoc, Bouchon, & The French Laundry. Getting reservations at the first 2 is a piece of cake but TFL requires a gong show approach bordering on commercial sadism. :o :? Nonetheless, we’re in and we’ll be doing 4 meals over 4 days. :D In the in-between times we’ll be subsisting on water and push-ups! ;) Full report to follow! :!:


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 Post subject: Re: The Keller Gut Check
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:27 am 
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Very envious and cannot wait to hear your reports. Hope they meet all of your expectations for a great anniversary and birthday celebration.
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 Post subject: Re: The Keller Gut Check
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:48 pm 
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What a wonderful way to celebrate. I hope you celebrate 1/2 birthdays too :-)

If you are up for it, I've heard there are lovely hikes in the Napa area.


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 Post subject: Re: The Keller Gut Check
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 4:03 pm 
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2 thoughts on the hiking idea:

- They would have to be all downhill :lol:
- Generally, it is about 4 million degrees F in the summer! :roll:

If we are conscious in Napa, it should be with wine :D :D


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 Post subject: Re: The Keller Gut Check
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:21 pm 
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If you get a chance and are near Santa Rosa, check out Paradise Ridge Winery....gorgeous Japanese inspired tasting room and sculpture garden and the wine is pretty darn good too.
Also, don't miss the Oakville Grocery....great place for picnic supplies.


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 Post subject: Re: The Keller Gut Check
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:11 pm 
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Congratulations on 20 years. Sounds like a great way to celebrate a birthday and anniversary. Will look forward to your review and hopefull you'll include some pic's.

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 Post subject: Re: The Keller Gut Check
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:43 pm 
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You should meet up with Josh while in the area.

Congrats!

Enjoy TFL...not been, but will at some point. Someday I'll tell you my Per Se reservation story...sigh.

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 Post subject: Re: The Keller Gut Check
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:47 pm 
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Oooh! and congratulations about the 20 yrs thing. Have a great time. I'm jealous. :D


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 Post subject: Re: The Keller Gut Check
PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:59 pm 
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Wino,

Yeah, please drop by! I'll be back in town by July 9. Maybe we could join you at Bouchon. ;-)

Don't bet on it being blazing hot. Right now it's about 55F. It's been a cold, wet summer so far.

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 Post subject: Re: The Keller Gut Check
PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:35 am 
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Congratulations on your big days. What a way to celebrate!
Just got off the phone with a friend who went to Beaune France to celebrate her 20th and eat in some highly touted restaurant that just got a new chef... a molecular gastronomist. She is pretty game but this sounded like a nightmare. Goose liver topped with pickled truffles (why?) and chicken breast tartar. Something that was topped with a stabilized foam of sea water that made whatever was under it taste just like sea water. My favorite was her description of one of the desserts as an enormous what plate holding a small silver spoon that contained a liquid and a round red thing that had the consistency of an eyeball and exploded in your mouth. I am still giggling.

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