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

Molito de Garbanzo · as the Library describes it — light · some richness · seasoned · led by toast · a morning plate · adjust this plate →

Bridge — shared noteCut — cleanseContrast — opposition

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

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Genmaicha — Yamamotoyama Genmaicha Green Tea with Roasted Rice Tea, as served the dish's toast finds 'toasted rice' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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Jameson Irish Whiskey Whisky · Irish Distillers — Midleton · County Cork — Midleton Distillery the dish's toast finds 'light toasted wood' in the glass; a shared note, carried across. After the morning pours, where the service allows. Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.

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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. After the morning pours, where the service allows.

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