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Andrew McNamara, Papa's Pilar Master Sommelier and Cooperage Consultant

Bahama Bob, Key West Rum Maker & Innovation Consultant

The prolonged contact of the rum with the sherry-soaked wood in the barrel imparts it with unique flavor and depth, making it a fast favorite of rum aficionados who thirst for something out of the ordinary.

What is cooperage in winemaking?

Cooperage is not merely a flavoring component in wine but is also a key player in sculpting a wine via lees contact and oxygenation, even when adding no flavor. Thus, the type and thickness of wood and size of vessel is also quite important.

Learn from the experts while you sip a sherry cask rum cocktail created specially for you, by Papa's expert mixologist Hurrican Helen.

Do not worry, we have some delicious wine to go with your lunch

prepared by Chef Richard Blais

Papa's Pilar Sherry-Finished Rum is unlike anything Hemingway Rum Company has ever produced before. This dark rum blend is further aged in Spanish Oloroso Sherry casks for an extended period of time, creating a distinguished and complex flavor profile of decadent hazelnut, toffee, layered spice and toasted oak.

Mixed green salad 

Red apples, manchego cheese, marcona almonds
Xerez vinegar and mustard dressing

 Xato salad
Escarole lettuce, tomato, cod fish, tuna, anchovies, olives Bruschetta de pan tostado, 

queso de cabra, molasses and pear compote 

Salted Cod

Fermented escabeche, escalivado de vegetales, oak cask smoke

Carrillada de Res

Spanish braised beef cheeks,
Pilar sherry cask rum, sweet and sour spanish onion and potatoes 

Flan borracho 

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Dalí de Púbol 

(11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), 

known professionally as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in 

Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, at times in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descendants of the Moors. 

Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. To the dismay of those who held his work in high regard, and to the irritation of his critics, his eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork.

Ever heard of surrealist fine dining? This must-have reprint of Les diners de Gala reveals the exotic flavors and elaborate imaginings behind the legendary dinner parties of Salvador and Gala Dalí. With recipes from such leading Paris restaurants as La Tour d’Argent and Maxim’s, a special section on aphrodisia, and bespoke illustrations from Dalí himself, this book is at once an artwork, a practical cookbook, and a delicious morsel of multisensory pleasure.

The menu this evening is based loosely on Dalís Cookbook

"Les Diners de Gala"

MENU

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Vilarnau

Brut Reserva, Cava, Barcelona

Trencadís Edition

Hors-d’ Œuvre : passed

Anchovies à la Christmas on eggs

Cytherean Meatballs

Salade : at the table

Salad composed according to Alexandre Dumas

Entrées : from the buffet

Bush of Rock Red Shrimp in Viking herbs

White Caracoles - Majorcan snail stew

Stuffed Cabbages with White wine and thyme

WINE

Décadence : carved

Presented by Wölfe Cutlery

Beef rib shot with Brandy with sauce Chevreuil, Flamed

Pheasant Raphaël Ravenga (young hen)

Petits-Pois au Beurre in Paprika

Potato au Gratín on Bleu

Dulce Monastrell, Old Vines, Olivares Bodegas, Jumilla, Spain

Entremets : served

Jijona Turrón Helado de Vainilla

Plátano de crianza Flambeado

Gran Duque d'Alba Brandy de Jerez

Fromage de Manchego