Eculent 26 Course Dinner – Kemah, Houston, Texas

We saw this on Instagram and started researching the chef and the restaurant and we were trying to find a reservation which after 3 months we got in! This is a different take on fine dining… be prepared to excite and confuse your taste buds. David has prepared a culinary journey that is not what we expected for the greater good. It was fun! only 4 tables – 12 people.

So in no particular order one of the great ‘outside of the food’ things that happens is the table changes colour and the lighting changes colour for every course and the table has a design on it that when a certain light is put on it changes it is again just one of the little things that makes it very different.

Now on with food, see the label on each photo it is not what you expect.

From the top is a French Onion Soup bomb, then a BLT tomato bomb and finally a Cesar Salad that is freeze dried and opens up in your mouth.

The BLT tomato is great when you close your eyes, it tastes just like it !

This was a Butterfly Pea Flower Drink that changed colour when we added a test tube of ‘something’ to it!
Pineapple two ways with Brazilian Ants
Breakfast
Foie Gras
Chowder and fresh shrimp

This was a great dish. Crispy salad, 7 different types of mushrooms, snails and a mushroom sauce. Then underneath the salad was black truffle lava and it was fun picking through everything with your fingers but highlight was the fork that they give you that when you put it to your nose it smells of Earth so when you use the fork to take a mouthful of the salad it tastes and smells like a forest really unique.

Italian Mouthful
Ceviche
Pig in a Cloud
44 Farms Strip

So the steak is sous vide for 10 hrs and pan seared in duck fat. The nest is filo pastry and potatoes inside. Brussels on the side. Really tasty.

Pre Dessert – it did crackle like a breakfast cereal !
That’s right – he added hot milk and it became a hot custard with a stick pudding in the middle.
Selection of homemade chocolates
David the chef in the middle

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