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Oceanic Dinners 2011 – MENU – Mid-Atlantic

Second of two Oceanic Dinners, 2011: Mid-Atlantic Coast
Tuesday, July 19 – Friday, July 22
~Marin Miyagi Oyster Shooters~
St. George Spirits kombu seaweed eau de vie, pickled cucumber, nori

A special selection of wines from Bonny Doon
To Start
Cold:
• Crudo of fluke (New Jersey, fixed gillnets) with roasted Gypsy peppers, fried shallots and Piccolo Fino basil
• Lobster roll (Maine, trap caught) on [...]

Drinks for Oceanic Dinners 2011

We’ll be featuring Randall Grahm’s Bonny Doon wines for this year’s Oceanic Dinners because duh, we really like his wines! But also because he’s always been ahead of the pack on the transparency front and in that regard, his commitment to tell-all labels makes a fine compliment to our well-linked menu. Always an amusing teller of tales, we asked Randall…

2011 Oceanic Dinners

This year’s Oceanic Dinners are just a few weeks away and Chef Jonah Rhodehamel and Tom Worthington of Monterey Fish Company are working to finalize the menu. Fish Dinners are always tricky in this respect because we can never be absolutely sure what the boats will bring in on any given day. But here’s what we can say for certain:…

Announcing Oceanic Dinners 2010

9th Annual Oceanic Dinners at Oliveto: June 9-12 “At a time when many of us worry about what sort of fish we should be eating, one Californian reader kindly sent me the exemplary menu from a special seafood dinner held at Oliveto restaurant in Oakland. It’s a fine example of a restaurant taking …

Oceanic Dinners 2009

June 10 marks the beginning of our eighth annual Oceanic Dinner event, which our trusted co-conspirator Tom Worthington of Monterey Fish Company says is looking very good for all our fishery sources (except local salmon). Our Oceanic Dinners are the most spectacular of our special events. We will serve some sixty species of sea beings and…

Monterey Fish Company- Profile

Paul Johnson began as a chef in Berkeley who got into the fish distribution business. He started by selling to a number of restaurants. Tom Worthington joined the business in 1980…

From the Kitchen – Oceanic Dinners 2009

Our Oceanic Dinners are the most spectacular of our special events. In collaboration with Monterey Fish Company and its co-owner, Tom Worthington, we serve some 60 species of sea beings and plants, all absolutely fresh, harvested sustainably and prepared deliciously, skillfully, imaginatively, and respectfully….