She's at it again. Geeta Bansal, Weekly contributor and owner/chef of Clay Oven, an Indian restaurant in Irvine, is proving once again that's she might be OC's most prolific pop-up restaurateur (nevermind that she actually has a brick-and-mortar of her own).
For certain she has a lot of friends in chef circles who don't mind having her control their kitchens for a night at a time.
This time, it's Amar Santana, who's hosting Bansal for a dinner called “Indian Summer in Laguna” tonight at Broadway.
It happens at 6:30 p.m. and costs $85 per person ($45 extra for wine pairing).
Here's the planned menu.
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SPICED RUBBED HAMACHI SASHIMI
BUTTERMILK, FRESH HERB SALAD, LEMON
*****
SECOND COURSE
HOP, SKIP, SPLASH TANDOORI
ALOO TIKI, RED ONION POMEGRANATE YOGURT
*****
THIRD COURSE
SHRIMP CURRY
MANGO, RED QUINOA, OKRA HAY
*****
FOURTH COURSE
YOGURT MARINATED SONOMA QUAIL
WARM LENTIL SALAD, SMOKED CARROTS
*****
FIFTH COURSE
BRAISED RABBIT VINDALOO
BASMATI RICE, CHARRED GREEN ONIONS
*****
DESSERT
MANGO CHEESECAKE
POMEGRANATE, BASIL ICE CREAM, CRISPY WILD RICE
85 PER PERSON
45 FOR WINE PAIRING (OPTIONAL)
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.