Beverages · The pairing room

Start with the plate.

Name the dish's structure and the whole cellar answers — wine, sake, tea, coffee, beer or spirits on structural merit, never category habit. The move is always named; the reason is always written out.

Seared scallops, vanilla nage, shiso tempura Spanish paella Pacific Northwest clam chowder

Mucbilpollo — Large Festival Tamal Baked in Banana Leaves · as the Library describes it — mid weight · some richness · seasoned · led by toast and pepper · adjust this plate →

Bridge — shared noteCut — cleanseContrast — opposition

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2023 Cabernet Franc Wine · Painted Rock Estate Winery · Naramata Bench the dish's pepper finds 'green pepper' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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Ripple Rock Whisky · Shelter Point Distillery · Vancouver Island the dish's pepper finds 'pepper' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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1897 Amber Ale Beer · Stanley Park Brewing · Metro Vancouver the dish's toast finds 'toasted malt flavour' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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SOV Wheated Rye Whisky Whisky · Sons of Vancouver Distillery · Metro Vancouver the dish's toast finds 'toasted sugar' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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2017 Sparkling Brut Sparkling wine · Phantom Creek Estates · Black Sage Road the dish's toast finds 'toasted hazelnut' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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Americano Coffee, as served the dish's toast finds 'toasted grain' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

Suggestions are structural, drawn from each pour's own recorded markers · back to your cellar