After trying to get a reservation for more than a year, we finally made it to the French Laundry last Saturday for lunch, where we spent five hours working our way through nine courses of oh-so-delicious food. I won't go into detail about the individual dishes; sufficed to say that they were all very good. My only complaint is that I liked C's dishes more than mine!
One of the biggest surprises for me was the water they served. It's local water, but they're using Nordaq Fresh, a relatively new super-duper water filtration system that removes everything you don't want (impurities, VOCs, bacteria, etc.) but leaves everything you do (minerals, salts). And while you normally wouldn't think twice about water, the stuff they served made us all sit up and pay attention, because it was really, really good - clean, fresh and invigorating. Even better, it's local water, so there's no need to ship it from halfway around the world. I hope more restaurants start using this system soon.
When we were done with the meal, we even got a chance to check out the kitchen where all the magic happens. C. kept mentioning that it was smaller than she expected. One cool touch they had was a big LCD hooked up to a camera into the kitchen at Per Se in NYC.
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