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DREAMS
CONCEPTDreams is an eight-course progressive dinner inspired by Akira Kurosawa's 1990 film of the same name: eight vignettes drawn from the director's own dreams, spanning wonder, grief, guilt, and quiet acceptance. Each course follows one dream in sequence, translating its visual language and emotional register into food, texture, and presentation. The menu draws on Japanese flavor profiles and imagery pulled directly from each chapter, while the film played in the background throughout the evening, folding the full sensory experience into one.
THE MENUDesigned in Adobe Illustrator and printed on DVD. The format was a nod to the era in the 1990s, films like this one lived on disc.
FLORAL SESAME SALAD
HAMACHI CRUDO
RICE MILK GRANITA W FURIKAKE
SPIRAL VEGETABLE TART
SALMON MOSAIC W CARROT PUREE
CORN RICOTTA SAGE PASTA
FRUIT PLATTER
KINAKO PANNA COTTA
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SET DESIGNA strip of sand ran down the center of the table, holding candles upright along its length. Heirloom tomatoes carved into cloud forms sat among them. White tablecloth, linen napkins, bamboo plates.
The reference was the space a dream occupies: somewhere between earth and sky, grounded in something real but always dissolving at the edges.
