- billionaire cocktail (whiskey, grenadine, absinthe bitters, lemon)
- fragola coppa (pimm no. 1, creole shrub, cucumber, strawberry, mint, limonata)
- pisco sour

all delicious. yes, they came up with a strawberry cocktail that bore only the faintest resemblance to a tgif-style daiquiri. and didn’t suck. yes. it can be done.

(cocktail program designed in part by this guy)

we also got a mixed pate platter and a mixed salumi platter. i liked the salumi more than the pate. the pates were refined, lots of flavor, beautiful texture–but the salumi was on another level.

(i have to say–i’ve given fatted calf a few chances, because i want to like them. but adesso does pork products right. and–i realize now–fatted calf doesn’t.)

adesso gives away a wide variety of free food from 5p-7p and again from 1030p-12a. it’s all really good. i can’t see how they can afford to do it. also, i would kind of feel like a sucker paying $20 for food at 7p if i could have shown up 5 minutes earlier and gotten it for free.

i’m super stoked about this place. unlike pizzaiolo, you dont have to show up at opening to get in.

i wish i lived on pleasant valley, between p. and a. i would be the biggest fucking boozehound.