Warm Valrhona chocolate cake with a soft center and scoop of hazlenut gelato spoke most urgently to us, but we also reveled in the slab-like, delicate-textured chocolate bread pudding.
Dinner started with a salted cabbage appetizer, then kushiyaki hitotoori, a sequence of skewered grilled eel parts, including delicate silky-textured livers and lightly crunchy heads.
After a turn on the grill, it was filleted on our table, which had too small a surface for the procedure, but the delicate, fine-textured flesh was superb, as was the meat of sweet, firm swordfish and chunky amberjack, all roasted to supple tenderness.
I like to combine the delicate sweet flavor of Sungolds with the meatier, juicier, textured heirlooms.
The exotic objects unroll, revealing scrolls, or flip open, showing scrims or textured papers on which images of 13 centuries are disclosed: delicate spider webs and imposing elephants, erotic encounters and brutal acts, seashells and atomic explosions.
The two made on the premises possibilities were the fashionably presented tiramisù with its contrasting textured, lush mascarpone cream and espresso-soaked lady fingers, and a light, delicate white chocolate mousse festooned with a berry topping.
The Outis, from high altitude, own-rooted, very old vines, is densely textured and flavorful, while the single vineyard Cisterna Fuori, from 80 to 130-year-old vines, is somehow both delicate and power packed.
Attractively fruit-led, smoothly textured wine.
Its history and streetscape are certainly textured.
