The butcher's block, rather than being blood-stained and knife-chipped, is pristine; the meat grinder is for show too, filled with beans instead of beef.
Although Pomegranate sells dry-aged prime steaks for $36.99 a pound, pristine marrow bones and rows of whole chickens, Ms. Nazakat buys all her meat from the halal butcher a few blocks away.
Roasted crab cakes, the meat pristine, had their sweetness amplified by a mango-fennel chutney and a roasted red pepper mayonnaise.
The best openers were the pan-seared scallops resting on a bed of meltingly soft leeks and a pool of flavor-packed saffron sauce, the cocktail of pristine lump crab meat and the $12 lobster cocktail, which sounded like an extravagance but proved to be a best buy.
A scoop of crab salad, nothing more than pristine bits of meat freshened with flecks of mint, looks winsome on the plate, but there's no way to overlook the flashy redhead that comes with it, a hot-colored, ice-cold sorbet with a throbbing tomato flavor.
Appetizers that satisfied were the plump mussels in their tasty tomato sauce, the shrimp cocktail of five firm big fellows, the pristine lump crab-meat cocktail and the generous portion of two large grilled portobello mushrooms over a mesclun salad.
That's in part because he has more of them around, and because he sees a wide-open market for pristine, pasture-raised goat meat.
The crab meat cocktail, a pristine pile of lump crab, was the top seafood opener.
Dressed in cling-filmed trays like samples from an operating theatre, supermarket meat might look pristine and safe, but nothing was quite what it seemed on the label.
In a film to mark the taste test of the burger, he said that people had an erroneous image of modern meat production, imagining "pristine farms" with just a few animals in them.
