New Year's Dinner

Wednesday, December 31
Admission: $35 3-course Prix Fixe w/ Champagne Toast
Showtimes: 6pm - 11pm
reservations are recommended

NOTE: last seating for the Screening Room is at 7:30pm; please designate Front or Back Room when reserving

Before you go off and drink yourself into a hopeful oblivion and dream of a world without Bush, we hope you could join us in our Front Dining Room or our Back Screening Room, where we'll be showing an encore screening of Radley Metzger's The Lickerish Quartet vs. Score.

Here's the Menu...

Firsts (choice of):
Alligator Gumbo
Andouille, basmati rice, okra

Fried Squid
papaya, cashews, frisee, tamarind-squid ink dressing

Endive, Jicama and Honeydew Salad
candied walnuts, gorgonzola, apple cilantro emulsion

Mains (choice of):
Smoked Mushroom Risotto
Truffles, parmesan, sambal buttermilk broth

Catalan Pheasant Stew
figs, olives, caramelized onions, rosemary polenta

Steamed Hake
Cucumber broth, asian pear salad

Sweets(choice of):
Chocolate malted semifreddo
Candied kumquats, Oaxacan chocolate paint

Coconut and Lemongrass Panna Cotta
tumeric passion fruit soup, pineapple tuile

Pumpkin and White Chocolate Marquis
ginger cured lemon, brown sugar cream, sour cream gelato

And more about the entertainment...

Just watch the trailer. Look at that library, the soft focus, the 400 Blows homage, the New York Times' Vincent Canby recommended, the Andy Warhol shout out ("outrageously kinky masterpiece"), "the Quixotic movement of time".

Tonight we screen Radley Metzger's The Lickerish Quartet (1970) simultaneously with another Metzger erotic classic, Score (1973) on two screens each. Both films would definitely qualify as softcore these days; but back in the day, this was racy stuff. Score goes a little further than The Lickerish Quartet with explicitness, but seriously folks, there's a lot of beautifully shot melodrama to entertain you until you get your kink. We will lean heavily on the The Lickerish Quartet soundtrack...so you can follow at least one plot.