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Vivian and I spent the last night of our weekend trip eating at Arcadia in downtown San Jose. The food was wonderful.

Our Menu looked something like this:

Vivian -

Foie Gras Sliders - Caramelized onion jus, D'Anjou Pear Chutney

Creamed Spinach

Jim -

Bloomsdale Spinach with Quail Eggs, Pancetta, Hedgehog Mushrooms

8 Oz US Kobe Beef - medium rare - with green peppercorn crème sauce

Duck fat fries

Dessert -

Vivian - lemon souffle cake kumquat reduction and candied kumquat and fresh clementine orange

Jim - rootbeer float with sassafrass ice cream.


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The spinach salad was a welcome treat. The Quail eggs were done very nicely. Not too much salt ... although with pancetta there's always a bit of salt...

My steak was perfectly prepared, I was very surprised. Perfectly seared on all sides and a nice red all the way through the meat. The sauce was tasty, but certainly optional.

The Duck Fat Fries were .... lickable.

And the desserts were also very good. Between the Sassafras ice cream on Saturday night and the Coffee Bourbon ice cream the night before ... I'm upgrading my ice cream maker.

Certainly recommended if you are in the area.

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ice cream , steak , fries , california , bay area , arcadia , san jose , vivian lam , **** , duck fat , half moon trip 2007