Adventure Thug: Le Calendre

If you haven’t noticed, I enjoy try interesting and top rated restaurants. I especially enjoy the tasting menu with wine pairings. I liken the experience to watching a movie. There’s always a beginning, middle and end with a lot of surprises and unique experiences in between. Sometimes, like today, the surprises and unique experiences include an ongoing rapport with the wait staff and a couple of visits from head chef and owner Massimiliano Alajmo to ensure the dinning experience is progressing according to expectations. The dinning experience always includes flavors, temperatures, textures, scents, and colors.

Le Calendre is ranked 23rd amongst the world’s 50 top restaurants. I can always measure the quality of a dinning experience by how much I reflect on it during the subsequent days. This was definitely on excellent dinning experience. I thought about the food for days.

Le Calendre did lack one of the unique elements that most 3 star Michelin Restaurants have which is atmosphere, but what they lack in physical location and atmosphere (there are no outdoor gardens or views over the ocean), they make up for it is with a sense of humor (e.g. a picture of the owners smiling conspicuously placed near the urinal in the washroom and a playfully hidden dessert).

Highlights and Observations
- Hot and Cold Cauliflower, Caviar and Oysters was lacking.
- Iconic coloring of Murrina.
- Cannoli was so average/plain, I thought about it a lot subsequently.
- Risotto was a fail. The licorice powder had the taste of chlorination.
- Consume was perfect as a transition.