How To Eat Pt. 3

Willow's Inn

2 hrs from Seattle and easily top 5 meals of all time. One sitting each day, and a tiny group at that. If you ever get the chance, do not hesitate to try this place out.

Getting ready for the meal.

A drink to start

Atmosphere = good lighting

Smoke courtesy of the smoker.

Meal starts with the menu for the evening

Sunflower root smoked for 10 hours with moss in a cedar box. One of the most memorable scents ever, and it tasted just as good.

Smoked steelhead roe, maple syrup sherry cream, fried crepe with chives. So amazing.

Baked Kale, black truffle puree and toasted rye. So original and delicious

Shigoku oysters in sauerkraut juice, tapioca pearls and sorrel. Was nice, but the only thing that I ate here that didn't blow me away.

Shiitake mushrooms marinated in shiitake juice and grilled over fire. The best mushroom I've ever had in my life.

Scallop with cream, dill oil and water cress. So balanced and perfectly executed.

Organic grains, watercress emulsion, geoduck, beach peas, St. john's wort and sedum. I was astonished how good this was.

The view from our window

The salmon to ruin all salmons. Smoked over green elderwood pictured earlier. Eaten with fingers. So. Damn. Good.

Smoked mussels, green onion, with wild onion flowers and bread crumbs. This dish would have went amazing with whiskey. It was so good.

Bread service. Chicken drippings, rustic bread. THE BEST.

Stewed stinging nettles, fresh cheese, salmon berry flowers, miner's lettuce. Amazing. Really something special.

Deep fried halibut skin with razor clams and seaweed powder. I could eat these forever.

This is where Tomo stopped instagraming so I have no idea what I ate

We're onto dessert. From what I can recall it was a nettle broth with a creamy sorbet of something. It was also one of the tastiest and lightest desserts I've ever had.

Sweet potato, meringue, and some other tasty things that I've forgotten.

Caramel and some other tasty bits. I am nothing without Tomo's descriptions

One of the best meals of my life.