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Lounge goes for Baroque
If you've got champagne tastes and a champagne budget, your champagne dreams will come true at new Baroque Luxe Lounge in north Scottsdale. Two of the Valley's most creative minds, Jimmy Carlin (Blue Wasabi) and Peter Kasperski (Cowboy Ciao, Sea Saw, Star Spangled Tavern), have produced a "romantic, London-style bar," where the glittering Scottsdale crowd can "see and be seen."
The nibbling menu offers oysters Churchill (oysters baked with Sage Derby cheese, lardons and b�arnaise sauce, $15), lobster ravioli ($17) and steak tartare ($15).
The cocktail menu is eye-catching. You won't see drinks like this elsewhere: the Clavo Madero ($100), made with 1972 Ledaig single-malt Scotch, 1912 Barbeito Madeira, white-truffle honey, essences of tobacco, Earl Grey tea and orange bitters, strained, served over ice with a honeycomb.
Leslie Harlib's Cuisine Scene: It's really become time for tea
UNTIL A YEAR ago, Jennifer Leigh Sauer, a Mill Valley-based photographer, wasn't much of a tea drinker and hadn't thought much about tea. While on a shoot in San Francisco for one of her clients, she went into a Chinatown tea-tasting shop and it changed her life. "Before that, I thought tea was like Earl Grey or English Breakfast, basically Twinings or Liptons," she says. "The shop was so amazing; it was colorful, textural, beautiful. I was wound up visually by what I was seeing. And I couldn't believe the impact tea had on the people drinking it. It was magical." Being around tea culture was so inspiring, Sauer says, she decided to photograph tea salons around the Bay Area, thinking she'd write an article about the phenomenon. The photos and accompanying essays wound up as her first book - a beautiful full-color hardcover released this week by Earth Aware, a division of Palace Press in Terra Linda.
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