Restaurants – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:02:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 September 6 https://orangette.net/2015/09/september-6-2/ https://orangette.net/2015/09/september-6-2/#comments Sun, 06 Sep 2015 22:56:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/september-6-2 I’ve never been to Chez Panisse, the restaurant itself, the part with the nightly prix fixe menu. But I first went to the Cafe at Chez Panisse the summer that I was twenty, working at Whole Foods in Mill Valley, California, and living nearby at my aunt’s Tina’s house. I went with my cousin Katie, who was also at Tina’s that summer, and her saintly then-boyfriend Rob, an un-date-y third-wheel kind of date. We made a reservation, got (too) dressed up, and ordered the Menu du Jour, a three-course meal for the current steal of $30 – though it must have been $25 then, at most. We threw down. I remember the first course with a clarity that surprises me.…

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