Drove to Northwest Arkansas to visit the Crystal Bridges musuem and try this restaurant. Restaurant is only open four nights a week, 20 people and their reservations sell out in minutes. They only offer a 10-course tasting menu for $135 and interesting wine bottles. They don’t offer have a printed menu but below are my notes:
- Oat bread with homemade culture butter
- Left snack: their take on chips with onion dip
- Right snack: chicken liver with plum on a biscuit
- Texan wagyu tartare
- Flauta tempura with cheddar and kimchi with a pepper aioli
- Agnolotti filled with crab (can’t recall the sauce)
- “Philly cheesesteak” – dry aged steak and a “cheese whiz” sauce with freshly baked hoagie
- Passion fruit palate cleanser
- Apple cake
- Mignardises
Plating needs work and restaurant would benefit from better lighting, but we really enjoyed all the courses and their flavors.
by PassRevolutionary254
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This is such a funny coincidence, but my wife and I were just talking about taking a drive to Crystal Bridges. We might have to give this a go.
Jason is a sweetheart so don’t take this as me being overly critical but his food has ALWAYS looked like fine dining cosplay. : /
Everything sounds like it’d taste good. Don’t think that I’d particularly care about the plating. Crystal Bridges is a fantastic museum.
I was at the Palm Springs Art Museum on Sunday during the last day of Modernism week. I live in NWA. I can confirm that Crystal Bridges is fantastic. I didn’t dine onsite (in Palm Springs), but I think this tasting menu sounds amazing.
This is actually very nice, relaxed plating. Harder thing to pull off than amateurs think. Quite good for what I suspect is quite a small team.
I love seeing these restaurants in not conventional areas on here. Seems like a place that really changes it up a lot.