About Last Night: Nobuo at the Teeter House and Bitter and Twisted

Nobuo at the Teeter House:

Nobuo Fukuda Hard at Work

Technically, we ate there Friday but since it's my blog I can take some artistic licensee.  James Bard award winning chef Nobuo Fukuda shares Heritage square with another James Beard award winning chef...I think he makes pizza's or something.  Fukuda made a splash with the always inventive and fun Sea Saw (a space which later became FnB and later nothing).  You get the sense with Nobuo that much of what he does in not about you, it's about his expression, his choices, his vision.  This is especially so if you give him time to put together a tasting menu and even more so if you give him a couple weeks and let him go full blown Omakase on yo' azz!!  On this night, the tasting menu would have to do...and do it did.  We started off with Hassun, a seasonal local vegetable antipasti.  

Hassun

The eggplant and shashito peppers were legit!! Down the road we moved into Yuan Yaki, lettuce, onion and possibly the most flawlessly prepared tuna the world has ever known.  As is our custom, we made an addition: tender belly pork.  It came out piping hot and melt in your mouth tender.  We could have easily done with two or three more courses of just that.  Food?  Solid!  Wine? Solid Plus!!  Burgundy and more Burgundy. We went with two different White Burgs from the same producer.  Maison Roche de Bellene is a newer producer who uses old vine Chardonnay from a variety of locations to make great wines at palatable prices.  

Burgundy Porn

We began with 2010 Puligny-Montrachet Vieilles Vignes . An elegant lightly fruited white with a clean finish.  Great wine.  We wanted to go back to this well but sadly, that was the last bottle so we kicked it up a notch to the 2002 Meursault Collection Bellenum, another excellent Chardonnay that chef aptly described as having more "power!"  Fully agree.

Bitter and Twisted:

Bitter and Twisted

We made an 11pm reservation to pop into B&T post Teeter House.  Glad we did.  While it was not packed to the gills, it was busy enough and we watched the party  of four who arrived just before us be turned away.  You get the feeling that want to keep the exclusivity...for now.  How was it?  Definitely worth a visit.  Dark enough with a simple, modern, industrial vibe.  I essentially had a Gin Old Fashion which was very good.  The crowd is kind of hipster, downtown crew.  Think a slightly less cool version of Hanny's.

All in all, a good night.  We Ubered there and back making the evening seamless and arrest free.  Nobou and Bitter and Twisted, two more reasons to venture to CenPho.

Thanks for reading!

Doc Jay