Snackbar
I went to Snackbar last night with Paul-san. We each ordered a small plate to start, him a hamachi crudo and myself escargot over scrambled eggs and asparagus. Paul was a little turned off by the idea of hamachi with any sauce other then shoyu (as I am sure most Japanese natives would be) but I really enjoyed the dish. The fish had a large grain salt sprinkled over it which adequately gave me the sodium that shoyu would have added, and it also gave a really interesting rough texture to the fish. I think the texture may have been my favorite part of the dish. It was paired with a red fruity sauce, I could not discern what it was, but I think perhaps raspberry. My own small plate, the escargot, while not the most beautiful dish I have ever seen, was amazing. It was seasoned heavily, but not too much, soft and salty with a light chewy texture. The scrambled eggs… I think I have never had eggs in my life that were not overcooked. I did not realize that until I tried these. Light, fluffy, seasoned just right, they were a delight to eat.
One of my goals for the evening was to have Snackbar’s pork belly dish and reverse engineer the cooking method for my own uses. Unfortunately for me the menu had changed since the last time I was there about two months ago. There was a pork belly dish on the menu, a BLT sandwich. I asked the server if the pork was prepared the same as it had been on the old menu and he replied that it was, so I ordered it. I thought it would be a deconstructed BLT, a two inch thick slab of pork belly and a tomato salad or something. To my disappointment it was actually a BLT sandwich. To snackbar’s credit it was actually the best BLT I have ever eaten. Thick slabs of pork belly inside a thin crusty bread along side fantastic French fries.
Also featured is the basil lemonade cocktail. This was really tasty, it reminded me of a mohito, but a little more savory when you get a bit of basil. It was actually courtesy of the girls sitting at the table next to us. Paul is a smooth guy.
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