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Slide Show: Castagna's Dessert Tasting Menu

July 19, 2013

Castagna's Green Strawberry Tart

An eggshell-thin meringue shell surrounds a bright sorbet made with green strawberries and verjus from Montinore Estate Vineyards resting on a sable crumb cookie. The elegant, all-white "tart" is accented with a rose buttercream and petals from Castagna'

Pastry Eve Kuttemann at work in the kitchen/lab

Blackberries with Corn and Mescal

Inspired by a traditional French mille-feuille, this dessert with a kick features a corn crepe dentelle hiding two sweet treats: a blackberry with mescal gelee and roasted corn mousseline, and a blackberry mescal sorbet.

Dessert Wine Pairing Flight

The optional $12 wine pairing currently includes sparkling Montaribaldi “Righeij” Moscato d’Asti from Piedmont and Kopke's 1997 Colheita Port.

Hazelnut frozen yogurt topped with...

Playful "shards" of Valrhona chocolate, crispy milk, an orange-hazelnut cookie, and honey-hazelnut praline, served alongside a boozy Bulleit bourbon and hazelnut sauce.

Photography by Courtesy Castagna

The Castagna sidewalk garden, where chefs "forage" steps from the kitchen

"Rock and Paper"

The "rock" is a hazelnut cookie (the dark color comes from vegetable ash) filled with liquid raspberry. The "paper" is a coffee caramel surrounded by thin chocolate paper, the perfect end to a sweet meal.

Pastry chef Eve Kuttemann's fanciful collaborations with Castagna chef Justin Woodward result in a stand-alone meal for the sophisticated sweet tooth, bursting with inspiration from the bar, the garden, and dreamlike nostalgia. A flight of three desserts (plus some surprises) is just $25, with optional wine pairings for $12.

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