Dinner with Charles Phan

Early in November, Sur la Table in Palo Alto hosted an intimate dinner of 20, cooked by well-known chef, Charles Phan.  He was promoting his recently published Vietnamese Home Cooking cookbook.

I was fortunate enough to be asked to work the event and helped his Catering Manager as a part of the supporting SLT staff that evening.  Charles was very professional, super nice and the food was EXCELLENT.

Menu (wording is paraphrased):

• Spring Salad and Frisee Salad with 5 spice duck confit and hachiya persimmons
• Short Rib Vietnamese Beef stew with jasmine rice
• Mini chocolate pot au chocolate with creme fraiche and crunch chocolate AND mini lemon meringue tarts