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Stopped in last evening as chef Avner Samuel and his wife, Celeste, celebrated five years in business at Aurora. There were champagne toasts and, for hors d'oeuvres, an assortment of tiny crostini topped with some of Avner's favorite ingredients: foie gras and fig, beef tartare, and lobster, avocado and caviar. Guests got to take home an elegant little book filled with recipes for some of Avner's signature dishes. While we doubt we would ever get ambitious enough to try making Aurora's amuse-bouche, a brown eggshell filled with egg custard (this recipe is for the wild-mushroom ragout and maple-syrup cream version), the carmel avocado parfait is something we would actually attempt. Just as soon as we can afford some Royal Iranian Osetra Caviar. Avner told us he is getting this year's very first shipment of white truffles to reach the U.S. He's planning to use a special new see-through humidor that'll allow guests to view the truffles before opening the box for a sniff. He will be serving the truffles (which are from Alba, Italy) next week, Wednesday through Saturday. To reserve for the special truffle menu, call 214-528-9400. (Shay Forson photo of Celeste and Avner Samuel, courtesy of Aurora) |
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Posted by Shannon @ 1:25 PM Fri, Sep 28, 2007
maybe he can roll menu prices back to what the Dollar was worth vs the Euro, to levels that they were 5 years ago?
A good PR move and one that wouldn't cost him anything.
Posted by Kim Pierce @ 10:59 AM Sat, Sep 29, 2007
Troubled by short-time memory loss, are we? As a matter of fact, it hasn't been five years. It's been four. See our "best of 2003" article at
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_31_38/ai_n6146025/print.
Posted by Joseph Brigl @ 8:30 AM Sun, Sep 30, 2007
Odd they would be celebrating 5 years already.
Didn't they open in August 2003?
Posted by Waltrina Stovall @ 1:05 PM Mon, Oct 01, 2007
Quibble. Quibble. Four, or even three years, is a landmark for Avner, whom I have always believed to be one of Dallas' most talented -- but, alas, also temperamental -- chefs. Oldtimers will remember that it was he, not Dean Fearing, who first earned five stars for the Mansion and put tortilla soup on the menu.
Posted by Rachel @ 7:47 AM Tue, Oct 02, 2007
Oh please...
Credibility is more important than celebrity, in a chef, or a journalist. Some of us old-timers remember a lot more than his tortilla soup ;)
A half truth is a whole lie. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Posted by Waltrina Stovall @ 12:01 PM Tue, Oct 02, 2007
I'd like to refer Rachel to the introduction of Dean's first Mansion cookbook, in which he reduces the "gang of five" chefs credited with introducing Southwestern cuisine to the "gang of four." Guess who he left out.
Posted by Rachel @ 10:29 PM Tue, Oct 02, 2007
Who's quibbling now?
Earlier comment can "refer" to any chef, or person, who prefer celeb over creds.
A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
~ Yiddish Proverb
Posted by Waltrina Stovall @ 11:13 AM Thu, Oct 04, 2007
Rachel is way too deep, or subtle, for me. I feel like my creds are being questioned, but I can't respond to innuendo, or to someone whom I know nothing about except a first name.
I like her Yiddish proverbs, however. They inspired me to Google some up on the Web, and another good one is, "A dog without teeth will also attack a bone."
"You gotta...know when to fold 'em."
-- From "The Gambler," Kenny Rogers song
Posted by Joseph Brigl @ 5:28 PM Thu, Oct 04, 2007
How about them Mets?