The Tasting Menu at Pip's at The Copper Beech
Published: 02/07/2012 by erica
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The popularity of tasting menus and small plates have soared on the Shoreline and for good reason. Our restaurants have gotten better and friendly competition has forced our local chefs to up their game. While tasting menus in most fine dining rooms run upwards of $100, Pip's at The Copper Beech offers a relatively bargain-priced seven course version for $69. The usual rules apply: the entire table must partake and one must have an empty stomach and time to linger. Just such a convergence of events occured for my friend Colette's birthday, and we feasted on raw hamachi with blood orange puree, a fantastic oyster and lobster chowder, a colorful beet, turnip and sunchoke salad and seared foie gras bathed in duck consomme, BEFORE the main courses of meltingly tender swordfish, duck breast, and TWO servings of outrageous desserts. Chef Tyler Anderson's vision and execution elevates food to the spectacular, a rare thing on the Shoreline. If you've got a celebration coming or for an over-the-top Valentine's dinner, head to Pip's. But do not fill up on their famous baguettes beforehand.
