SATURDAY, March 14th, 2020
Location: Erickson Gallery, 9 NW 2nd Avenue, Portland.
This is our 10th Anniversary and 75th dinner celebration! For our 50th dinner we had 50 guests. For this, we’re playing with the numbers of years we are celebrating. 10 fishes for 10 years, a play on the Italian-American “feast of the seven fishes” for Christmas Eve. Our menu will be less influenced by this tradition’s specific dishes than its abundance. It will be composed of Secret Restaurant Greatest Hits, a cheeky take on what is a “Pacific Northwest fine dining restaurant”? all on one plate, and fun new ideas we’re excited to try for you.
The wine will be abundant and sourced from Ardor Natural Wines.
The images on this page, which will also adorn the menus, are from a book simply titled “Fish Cookery” that I found at the dusty bookshop in downtown Astoria, shortly before cooking some fish outside with my friend Adam. These images are serving as a sort of spirit inspiration for the dinner.
Due to our desire to serve you extensive, exceptionally well sourced seafood with really good wine, and the innumerable other expenses involved in doing a project like this, we are asking the highest end of our pricing: $50. We want to throw you the best party we can!
In case it wasn’t abundantly clear, this is not a money making venture! The ticket cost goes directly into the fine feast in the hopes of breaking even. That won’t happen with this dinner, even at the highest end, but we’ve committed to not going over that marker. If we do that we become something we are not. To break it down, this is literally 10 different seafoods to make 10 (or more?) ridiculously specific and unusual courses that will takes us days of intense hard work to prepare + lots of special wine, all for the cost of a pretty good dinner at a medium-nice conventional restaurant. The meal/experience we will be serving can once again be compared to trendy new seafood tasting menu restaurant Erizo, where the dinner + wine pairing is $200, before tip.
This one will start a little later, at 8 p.m. Consider coming downtown early and having a cocktail somewhere nearby before heading over to the party. Erickson is a community gallery run by our friend Brooke Budy, who arranged the opportunity. Thanks Brooke!
When we did the 50th, someone bought a block of 10 tickets and then only 3 of the people showed up. So please don’t do that, and keep it to 2ish per party and have the others in your group get them separately, where everyone is feeling some commitment. Thanks again for all the support!
SOLD OUT! Thank you thank you!
