Sitting in for Matt this week was Chef Albert Hall of Acacia Real Food & Cocktails, who reviewed the top food news of the day.

Chef Albert Hall

Chef Albert Hall

Acacia’s chef de cuisine Brian Smith also joined the conversation with news from the Acacia kitchen, including an upcoming German beer dinner! Ollie Shouse of Caffe Torino called in to discuss the restaurant’s unique expressions of traditional Italian cuisine, which includes a signature lasagna, veal marsala and veal piccata. Albert then conducted a blind tasting of some of the season’s suds, and tested our guests on their beer palates. Our featured guest was Beecher Howard, executive chef at The Abbey, who discussed his new menu, a new weekend brunch menu and his signature cedar plank salmon. He brought in some smoked peach salsa to sample, which accompanies his pork belly mcmuffin, and talked about molecular gastronomy being an exciting new direction in the culinary arts.

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