Armani/Aqua "Salt Discovery" Menu - Rare Salts at their best!

April 16, 2014 - PRLog -- Aqua/Armani’s Andrea Magnano has brought to his new post as head chef of the Italian/Japanese restaurant a “Salt Discovery Menu.” By coupling fresh ingredients with a selection of carefully sourced salts, Chef Magnano has created an original tasting experience menu, comprised of six courses partnered with seven different salts. Similar to a wine pairing menu, each salt is selected because of its unique ability to enhance the natural flavours of a particular dish.

In the starter entitled Marbled Red, Botan prawns are served on a block of pink Himalayan salt that infuses salt into the prawns to accentuate the sweetness of the dish, served with Amalfi lemon mayonnaise, clementine granite, and a dusting of licorice yellow Cypriot salt. Lost in Variation includes grass fed Black Angus beef paired with hoarfrost salt, which makes beef extremely tender, while a 58°C slow cooked black cod pave’ dish named Pure White, with cauliflower/ buffalo ricotta cream and white truffle oil, will be perfected with Esencia Arbequina. For the "risotto rosso" Persian blue salt is shaved at the table with a wow, and in the vongole of Italian clam and mussel with Spanish baby squid and organic baby plum tomatoes, served on house-made pasta with squid ink reduction, the partnering salt is a Hawaiian black lava variety produced from clear seawater placed in natural lava ponds, imparting a deep black hue, high mineral content and an earthy smokiness.

Aqua/Armani mixologists have also given thought and ingenuity to the salt discovery meny, creating old-time classics a twist by blending the spirits with unique salts to introduce a “Salt Discovery Cocktail Selection.” These include the Hendricks Dirty Martini, with Italian olives, floral soft Hendricks gin and an amazing Spanish olive salt - plus a half-salt rim. For an experience that goes beyond good taste into the realm of the true gourmet, the unique “Salt Discovery” menu offers a chance to enjoy the subtler pleasure of fine dining.

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