Welcome to the after party.

Check poisson! off the list of to-do’s. The diners seemed to be merry and full-bellied so I’d call it a success. Pictures of the meal are soon to follow but for now I’ll leave you with a shot of our post-dinner grub made using the only clean pan in the place and mostly unused ingredients (the Vietnamese herbs didn’t make …

So this is what it’s like . . .

This thing that we have going at The Wooden Table is a roller coaster of emotions. The spectrum usually ranges from pissed off (the fish monger cut the tails off?!) to stressed out (oh man, my gelée isn’t setting up) to amazement (all you do is soak these things in water and they end up looking awesome?). I don’t like …

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Why Some Desserts Taste Like Reggae

This post could’ve easily been titled something else like, ‘Why I Dance When I Eat’ or ‘I Wish I Could Eat That Sound’. Music is a big part of what we do at The Wooden Table (as you might be able to tell from the Bel Biv Devoe reference in the title of our previous post). We eat to it, …

That, girl, is poisson.

No not “poison”, “poisson”, the French word for “fish”. Repetez s’il vous plaît, “poisson”. Bien! No we’re not high on the snobbery, and there won’t be too many French preparations on this menu (read: light on the butter), but ever since French 1, I’ve liked the word “poisson”. It just rolls off the tongue a little nicer than “fish!”. And …

$an Jo$e Repre$ent

I’ve got a lot of alter egos, one of them yo-yo’s, another can’t resist a karaoke mic after a few too many Sapporos (Bust A Move anyone?), and yet another is a graphic designer. That last one is the one that gets to blog here today. When we first started talking about taking The Wooden Table to the next level …

Happy Un-Valentine’s Day

I’ve never been a fan of dining on Valentine’s Day (or of Valentine’s Day in general, take that Hallmark). Tables are always hard to come by, menus are often abbreviated or dumbed-down and parking is always a pain (I know, I know “spring for valet Mr. McDuck!”). So it only seemed appropriate for me to kick off The Wooden Table …

Make it so!

Hello fellow food enthusiasts. We at The Wooden Table are very happy to announce the launch of our humble blog. It’ll be here that we discuss the culture and cuisine of The Wooden Table. Since, we quite literally eat, live and breathe The Wooden Table, I have a suspicion that this blog will quickly become less a story about our …