Six years after my first (somewhat underwhelming) visit, I had dinner at Grey Gardens with a work friend. Much better this time ’round, I must say.

• Food
  • side stripe shrimp ~ tomato xo, scapes, black olive
  • kampachi ~ cabbage, yuzu, kombu
  • smoked fish ~ chips n’ dip
  • cauliflower ~ maitake, dill, lemon
  • duck ~ turnips, sweet potato, mustard
  • bavette ~ potato, cipollini, bordelaise
• Drinks
  • Ardoisières 2022 ‘Silice’ Savoie / Bourbon Old Fashioned to start
  • bottle of Chateau Phelan Ségur 2014 Saint-Estèphe with most of the food
  • glasses of Bodegas Toro Albala 1955 Don PX Convento Seleccion for dessert

Apart from how delicious virtually everything was, the other remarkable thing was the guest at the table next (but perpendicular) to ours who kept throwing her body backwards in fits of laughter and very nearly ending up in our food.

I continue to not get Kensington Market though. Never have. Probably never will.