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Review of La Pergola” *** Michelin , Rom...

First you taste with your eyes! The refined, eleg...

First you taste with your eyes! The refined, elegant creations placed before us were among the most beautiful food we've ever been served.
Each course of the tasting menu - 9 of them?? - was served on unique tableware designed precisely for the dish being served. Some served as a canvas for the artfully presented food while others seemed a part of the dish.
The marriage of flavors and textures have been carefully thought out and impeccably executed. Even the garnishes were amazing - a cod dish was rimmed with a salt-looking mound which was actually monk fish that had been frozen with liquid nitrogen into dry "essence of fish"; resembling snow. Incredibly intense flavor.
We had a delicate tarragon scented consomme with gooseneck barnacles (which I actually recognized from a cooking class in Barcelona), venus clams and shrimp. Wonderful.
An almost translucent pasta was filled with the sauce from carbonara (egg yolks, pecorino cheese, cream, salt & pepper), boiled 27 seconds and dressed with a sauce of veal stock, white wine, pecorino, proscuitto, zucchini & ?? The filling literally explodes in your mouth. Absolutely the best!!
Heartier courses in the tasting menu were equally amazing and included a venison dish as well as one of veal cheeks.

Throughout the nearly 4 hour superb dinner the service was excellent; attentive but not intrusive. Love to go back................