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Best wine to go with Dungeness crab?
Thanks for your replies. In the end we had 2 bottles - a dry white called Picpoul de Pinet from Launguedoc and a bubbly brut called Tessier Crémant de Loire which was our favourite, it was sweeter than the first wine and complemented the crab beautifully.
Best wine to go with Dungeness crab?
What type of wine goes well with Dungeness crab? Any suggestions welcome (except Chardonnay please!) Also, does anyone know about other ways of eating crab apart from the usual lemon juice/cocktail sauce? I heard in China they eat it with raw ginger and hot ginger tea...
Thanks!
Delicious Mystery at The Front Porch!
Has anyone been to the restaurant called the Front Porch, in San Francisco, at the end of Mission Street? We started with the Duck liver pate, and plantain fritters. The liver pate was good and well made, but it was the inventive combinations of flavours and colours in the plantain starter; avocado, creme fraiche, red wild salmon and burnt umber plantain that made our taste buds tingle, and, more crucially, was our first introduction to the restaurant's flair and originality. For the main course we ordered the spicy crab porridge and fried chicken. The porridge is the reason I am writing this post, it was simply sublime, and completely out of this world fabulous. Not a risotto, not a roux, nor a mash...a smooth, silky "porridge" with spring onions, fresh peas and a few ears of corn under a generous serving of pink crab. The restaurant also serves a very unusual organic English ale amidst its beverages, and this rare ale has an icon of a crow that has a swallowed a key. This seems like an appropriate analogy for how one might feel after dining here.
