[Highway Star]

Update...

I've hired a few cooks, they are younger guys with limited experience, but already respect me because they're seeing me as someone they can learn from. I have them taste the things I've created and they look at me funny. Example, the pepper slaw for the crab cake...it is kind of loud, and a little strong by itself with the main flavor being the tang of the bell pepper and sweetness of the carrots. It is crunchy, and strange to eat all alone, but when you get a bite of the slaw AND the cold sauce, and the crab cake, it is enough to make you swoon. Deeeeelicious. Warm Maryland-style lump crabmeat crab cake seared in butter, cold dijon mustard cream, and the pepper slaw. Self garnishing food is righteous, and once this is on the plate, it needs nothing.... like something you'd see on TV. Hot, cold, bitter, sweet, spicy, salty, crunchy, soft, creamy, savory... it is all there. There are only 5 ways the taste buds of a human being can be stimulated. All of those elements are in this dish. It is friggin genius. Everything else I created to put on this menu has the same level of technicality and thought behind it.

We're opening this wednesday...