PR: Asiatique Cigar and Bourbon Dinner April 26

[Robin Garr]

Monday, April 26, 6:30 pm, J Shepherd will present cigar selections from Oliva paired with bourbons from Heaven Hill Distillery to go with Chef Looi’'s savory five course meal.

Courses start with garam masala dusted lamb carpaccio, poached beet, arugula and pickled ginger+plum sake vinaigrette; followed by a second course of red chili+lemongrass crusted diver’s scallop, caramelized shrimp, and red onion sambal with basil oil.

The seafood course will be Ginger+Mi Chu Poached Sea Bass, Tofu, Baby Spinach and Pickled Mustard Green Broth. The meat course will be Roasted Dry Rubbed Duck, Peppercorn Crusted Angus Beef Medallion, With Coconut+Goat Cheese Foam, Purple Potato and Espresso Reduction.

The dessert course will be Passion Fruit Panna Cotta, Saffron Scented Kulfi with Jasmine Rice Pudding and Fresh Fruit Compote.

The featured Heaven Hill bourbons and cigars will include Bernheim Wheat Whiskey with Oliva Reserve Connecticut Wrapper , Evan Williams Single Barrel with Oliva Series G Cameroon, and Elijah Craig 18 year with Oliva Series V Liga Especial.

The cost is $75 per person, excluding tax and gratuity. Call Asiatique, 451-2749.

Where would one smoke the cigars? On the deck, I presume?

[Robin Garr]

Where would one smoke the cigars? On the deck, I presume?

Correctamundo! I just got a reply from Asiatique, and you are correct. Out on the deck it is.

Tangentially, there's some evidence about that an exception may be made for hookahs. There was a lot of publicity about allegations by the Iranian-American community in Los Angeles, where hookah lounges are popular, that the LAX smoking law illegally discriminated on the basis of national origin. Or something. I wonder if this precedent cut an exception for hookah lounges in other jurisdictions. Anybody know about Cafe 360 and other spots around here were one can make like that caterpillar in Alice and light up?

I'm an avid cigar smoker and bourbon drinker, however Monday events are a no go for me. Weak.

Adam, if we fill this event on Monday we will have an additional dinner on Tuesday. I hope this could be an option for you. We did another cigar dinner over the winter with 40 degree weather which sold out so I expect the more pleasing climate will draw a larger crowd. If anyone else would rather the Tuesday I'm sure we could accomidate another evening. We also had a large number of cigarette smokers join us last time who were just happy to mix in, most were partners of cigar smokers. I hope to do more of these dinners over the summer.