RAVE - NYE at RN74

A great combo of things I love - New Years Eve, RN74, and friends Felicia and David.

Oh, and great wine and silly hats.

We started early at home, with champagne, snacks, a couple bottles of excellent red, and non-alcoholic cocktails for the mother-to-be and therefore handy driver for later on ;)

RN74 is an interestingly laid-out place, long and relatively thin. A reception and bar at the center, a lounge turned into boisterous dance-hall at one end, and the classy restaurant at the other end. 

The set menu had just enough choice to keep us happy, so we happily chose these dishes: 

• Musque de Provence Pumpkin soup - smoked hazelnuts, meyer lemon, espresso bean, mascarpone
• Ona Kanpachi Crudo - cucumber, radishes, black truffle, passion fruit, nache
• Steak Tartare - cauliflower, pine nuts, Dijon mustard, whole wheat flatbread, watercress
• Sauted Hudson Valley Foie Gras - foraged mushrooms, cipollini onions a la grecque
• Cascade Mountain Arctic Char - sauteed pork belly, french green lentils, brussels sprouts, parsnip veloute
• Daurade Royale, cardoons, new crop potatoes, king trumpet mushrooms, hollandaise mousseline
• Roasted Mary's Chicken - celery root potato gratin, anjou pear, swiss chard, sauce colbert

We ended at home, with totally un-necessary but nevertheless very tasty single malts.

I remember a healthy debate over dinner about baby's names, but can't remember the result.