Restaurants Think They’re Making This Classic Dish More “Accessible.” I’m Not Sure That’s Such a Good Thing.
On a recent outing to the opulent, subterranean cocktail lounge Kitty’s Cosmopolitan Club in Chicago, four friends eagerly agreed to order the Dungeness crab “cocktail,” among other posh snacks, to wash down with silky gin martinis stirred tableside. The crab arrived shelled, piled jarringly into a fluted scallop shell.
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On a recent outing to the opulent, subterranean cocktail lounge Kitty’s Cosmopolitan Club in Chicago, four friends eagerly agreed to order the Dungeness crab “cocktail,” among other posh snacks, to wash down with silky gin martinis stirred tableside. The crab arrived shelled, piled jarringly into a fluted scallop shell. The meat itself was delicious, buttery-sweet, exhaling gentle heat and bright citrus. But the lack of effort to excavate it troubled me, as did the use of a bivalve shell to present crustacean meat.
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- On a recent outing to the opulent, subterranean cocktail lounge Kitty’s Cosmopolitan Club in Chicago, four friends eagerly agreed to order the Dungeness crab “cocktail,” among other posh snacks, to wash down with silky gin martinis stirred tableside. The crab arrived shelled, piled jarringly into a fluted scallop shell.
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Restaurants Think They’re Making This Classic Dish More “Accessible.” I’m Not Sure That’s Such a Good Thing.
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