<table border="0" align="right" width="310"><tr><td><img src="http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/610lee.jpg" border="1" align="right"></td></tr><tr><td>Chef Edward Lee at 610 Magnolia. LEO photo by Nicole Pullen</td></tr></table>LEO's Eat 'n' Blog with Louisville HotBytes
What happens when one becomes so jaded that even the regular dinner at a culinary shrine seems routine? "Ho, hum, dinner at 610 Magnolia again!" Here's my advice: Kick it up with a special dinner at 610.
Frankly, I don't think I could ever attain such a level of ennui about the restaurant that's arguably the region's best. Chef Edward Lee's regular menu is a never-ending series of surprises, with exciting new dishes every weekend. But every now and then, Lee pulls off something special. And these events - best tracked by signing up for the e-mail list on the restaurant Web site at www.610magnolia.com - are memorable indeed.
Take last week's Palindrome dinner.
Say what?
Say "Pal-in-drome." You know, a word or phrase that reads the same forward or backward. Teddy Roosevelt's alleged salute to the Panama Canal: "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama." Or the ancient pick-up line that got left out of Genesis: "Madam, I'm Adam."
Lee's culinary invention works something like that, but without the spelling challenges ...
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