Breads at Sip & Savor Dinner Series | Jean-Georges Beverly Hills, Waldorf Astoria, CA

Beverly Hills, CA, December 2022
• GAYOT’s Rating: 16/20
• Cuisine: French / Contemporary
• Open: Breakfast daily, Dinner Tues.-Sat.
• Jean-Georges Beverly Hills:
– 2017 Best New Restaurants in the U.S.
– Best Los Angeles Restaurants
– Best Los Angeles French Restaurants
– Best Beverly Hills Romantic Restaurants.
> Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten is GAYOT’s 2016 Restaurateur of the Year.
• The team at Jean-Georges Beverly Hills is bringing you “Sip & Savor,” a monthly dinner series. Each month, a winery and purveyors are selected to create a 6-course seasonally driven wine paired menu.
The elegant wines of Newton, a Napa Valley winery founded in 1977 by Peter Newton, and now in the hands of the luxury LVMH consortium, were the ones guests got to sip at the December dinner. Newton produces unfiltered wines with sustainable practices.
A few months ago, executive chef Steve Benjamin made a bread discovery, and fell in love with the flour of artisan baker brothers Alexandre and Romain Lecat of Sweet Wheat. Operating from Redondo Beach, CA, their breads are now the ones offered at Jean-Georges Beverly Hills and the Waldorf Astoria. They are so delicious that my guest, who very rarely eats bread, made the difficult exercise of balancing his dinner between the actual dishes and the bread with the one and only Brittany Bordier butter — I think he is still mad at me for bringing him along to this b & b trap.
An evening of discoveries. To the next one!
> Read about the November 2022 “Sip & Savor” Dinner.
Alexandre & Romain Lecat, Founders of Sweet Wheat Breads from Sweet Wheat bakery Champagne Ruinart Blanc de Blancs with Sweet Wheat Breads & Bordier Butter Arancini Amuse-Bouche Toasted Egg Yolk Newton Unfiltered Chardonnay 2020 with Tuna Tartare, apple celeriac, yuzu mustard Newton The Puzzle 1997 Cabernet Sauvignon with Mushroom Risotto, forage mushrooms, Meyer lemon Newton Single Vineyard Chardonnay Carneros 2016 with Pumpkin Seed Striped Bass, almond sumac condiment Newton The Puzzle 2013 Cabernet Sauvignon with Peppercorn Crusted Tenderloin, potato gnocchi, Brussels sprouts, superior sauce Newton The Puzzle 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon with Molten Chocolate Cake, vanilla bean ice cream
Jean-Georges Beverly Hills – GAYOT’s Rating: 16/20
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