Sel is a small modern upscale restaurant located in Old Town Scottsdale Arizona. The name Sel is also French for salt.
Salt may symbolize amazing benefits and is a choice at meals.
They have an outdoor patio.
Inside Sel also has an open kitchen.
There is a cozy dining room and bar.
And salt shakers on the walls of the bathrooms.
This week (May 2021) it was restaurant week and Sel was offering a three course tasting menu for $44.00 a person with an optional wine pairing for $50.00 a person. Tonight they were only offering the restaurant week menu with a few add on options and a cocktail menu but not a wine list.
We are more wine people than cocktail people. We usually get a bottle of wine with dinners but since there are no wine bottles on our menus we went with the optional wine pairings.
Our first course was sweet pea & wild ramp vichyssoise.
it was topped with mint and a buttermilk emulsion. It taste like cold creamy pea soup with a potato base to me with mint. Whatever it is….the soup is good.
Our second courses were…heirloom tomato and roasted beet salad.
This salad is very unique. There are stringy things on the plate that have a little curly parsley-like heads with slightly pinkish stems. Here is a closer look.
Gosh the tomatoes are amazing…they taste just picked like from a tomato plant in New Jersey but I know they must be local. There is also some pickled ramp, very good creamy Crow’s Dairy goat feta cheese, a tasty lightly fermented red pepper & brown butter emulsion. The puffed forbidden black rice didn’t make it to our plates but the rest of the salad was very good. (the dark stuff on the plate are the beets)
For my main I went with the Thai Basil Crusted Alaskan Halibut.
I received a nice meaty piece of fish that was flaky and lightly dusted with Thai Basil. It was in a tasty slightly spicy miso curry with roasted sweet corn, some fresh spinach and micro greens. The miso curry goes expertly well with everything.
My husband got a very nice upscale kind of grilled filet mignon plate.
The filet was prepared to perfection and was flavorful and tender. There also was fancy romanesco cauliflower, white truffle and black garlic jus braised potatoes and bordelaise sauce.
That was my visit to Sel in Scottsdale AZ for Spring Restaurant Week 2021
From a prior brunch at Sel we had…………
Black truffle deviled eggs with dijon vinaigrette and tarragon aioli with crisp chicken skin and micro greens
Piri Piri chicken with lemon blueberry ricotta Dutch baby pancake
Iberico pork skirt steak with poached eggs, potato patty, arugula preserved lemon slaw and Creole hollandaise
Flourless chocolate tiramisu with hazelnut praline and dulce de leche gelato
www.SelRestaurant.com
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