Thursday, April 29, 2010

Cobaya Experiment #6 - Wednesday May 12

We're at it again. Wednesday, May 12, 2010. This will be during "normal" dining hours, not a midnight affair, and will be a bit more upscale than our last event. Pricing will be $90/person inclusive of tax and tip, with a $25 wine pairing option.

Same routine: please send an email to request seats, and let me know how many you're requesting (please use the "contact the underground" link to the right). Within a few days you will be advised whether the reservation has been confirmed; when you have received a confirmed reservation, please book it using the PayPal link which will be set up here (please do not book until you've received a confirmation). Seating will be limited, and I will hold 4 seats for a "lottery," to be conducted a few days in advance of the dinner for those folks who do not compulsively check their emails.

UPDATED:

For those people who have CONFIRMED SEATS, the PayPal link for booking your seats is below. Please do not pay for seats unless you've received a confirmation email. Thanks!



Cobaya 5/12 Dinner





A brief refresher course on the whole Cobaya thing: there is no "menu". There are no choices. You'll be eating what the chef chooses to make for the night. If you have food related allergies, strict dietary requirements, religious restrictions; are salt sensitive, vegetarian, pescatarian, or vegan; don't like your meat cooked medium rare, or are pregnant: this meal is probably not for you. Do not expect white-glove service. Don't ask for your sauce on the side. Just come and enjoy.

Confirmed and paid-up attendees will receive an e-mail a day or two before the 12th, confirming the location. Start time will be around 7:30/8:00pm, again, details to be confirmed shortly.

As always, thank you for your interest.


Monday, April 26, 2010

Experiment #5 - Cobaya in the Night Kitchen at Sakaya Kitchen


Many thanks to the forty guinea pigs who stayed up late and came out to Sakaya Kitchen at midnight this past Saturday for our latest Cobaya dinner. You can see all my pictures here in this flickr set (there's a little taste below), and my recap of the night's festivities is up on Food For Thought. I'd love to hear others' takes on the dinner, feel free to add your own comments or links. As always, we are tremendously grateful for your support for these events. We had our biggest group yet, and I hope everyone enjoyed themselves. Thanks.


Edited to add: a recap from Tinkering With Dinner is now up as well, and also now from The Chowfather.


The full menu:

"Cobaya in the Night Kitchen @Sak[1]aya Kitchen"
 April 24, 2010 Midnight

What you may already know...

Papa's Shrimp & Pork Filipino Egg Rolls, Fuji Vinegar

Pork Butt, House Cured & Roasted Boston Butt, House Pickle, Ssamjang Sweet Chili

Some new stuff for Cobaya...

Garlic'd Laughing Bird Shrimp, Chive Flower Soba Noodles

Bucket of Korean Fried Sweetbreads & Spicy Frog Legs, Local Baby Cucumber Blossom

"Chim Quay" Quail, Pig Skin "Tsitsaron," Chinese Broccoli

"Nuoc Mau" Pork Belly, Roasted Local Baby Carrots, Crispy Bone Marrow, Coconut Rice

Dessert!?...Go home and have sex like the old days instead of blogging about food...

Blue Point Oyster[2]
Pajeon

Menardies[3]

Wife Hales' Chocolate Chocolate Cookie Bag

[1]Cobaya Kitchen

[2]An aphrodisiac is a substance that increases sexual desire

[3]Postcoital



Monday, April 19, 2010

Edible Cobaya?

There's a little blurb on the Guinea Pigs here in the latest edition of Edible South Florida - and a lot of other good reading too, including Norman Van Aken singing the praises of a couple of my favorite tropical fruits, mamey and lychee. You can see more about Edible South Florida on their website, or look for the publication at Whole Foods and several other locations.

For those interested in the April 24 "Cobaya in the Night Kitchen" dinner, "lottery" and waitlist seats should be announced tomorrow. For those of you who have already received confirmations of your requests but haven't booked through PayPal yet: your seats will be released to the waitlist if they're not booked by midnight tonight (Monday April 19). Tick. Tock.


Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Cobaya in the Night Kitchen

"Did you ever hear of Micky, how he heard a racket in the night and shouted and fell through the dark ..."

Time for something different. Cobaya. Midnight. Saturday, April 24. $55, tax & tip included. Want in?

Please send an email to request seats, and let me know how many you're requesting (the email link is over on the right side over there, where it says "contact the underground"). Within a few days you will be advised whether the reservation has been confirmed; when you have received a confirmed reservation, please book it using the PayPal link which will be set up on this page (please do not book until you've received a confirmation). Seating will be limited, and I will hold 6 seats for a "lottery," to be conducted a few days in advance of the dinner for those folks who do not compulsively check their emails.

UPDATED:

For those people who have CONFIRMED SEATS, the PayPal link for booking your seats is below. Please do not pay for seats unless you've received a confirmation email. Thanks!


How Many?





A brief refresher course on the whole Cobaya thing: there is no "menu". There are no choices. You'll be eating what the chef chooses to make for the night. If you have food related allergies, strict dietary requirements, religious restrictions; are salt sensitive, vegetarian, pescatarian, or vegan; don't like your meat cooked medium rare, or are pregnant: this meal is probably not for you. Do not expect white-glove service. Don't ask for your sauce on the side. Just come and enjoy.

Confirmed and paid-up attendees will receive an e-mail a day or two before the 24th, confirming the location. Start time will be midnight.

As always, thank you for your interest.