eating adventure this weekend:

perhaps the most spectacular meal i have had in my life (certainly the most expensive!)
MANRESA - Los Gatos, CA

Tasting Menu as best as I can remember, since it was so complex I may have misconstrued a few of the items:
- olive madeleine & red pepper gelee
- croquette with some hot liquid pistachio stuff?
- oyster with celery ice
- arpege egg
- butter with sea salt (no pics of the bread, which was french, wheat, and olive)
- mussel, crab, clam, kelp
- prawns with indian spice
- garden dish - mix of vegetables/flowers from their garden
- abalone & foie gras in a bonito broth
- cod a la plancha in a red bell pepper broth ?
- roast squab and squab confit, grapes, touch of bacon
- spring lamb, peas, wheatberries, kelp
- black tea with some ice cream, crispy rice
- custard in white chocolate, and ice cream with pea leaf
- chocolate fondant, salty cracker, sourdough ice cream
- chocolate madeleine, strawberry gelee