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

Pollo Adobado Relleno y Su Pasta · as the Library describes it — mid to full weight · bright · led by thyme, oregano, smoke and toast · adjust this plate →

Bridge — shared noteCut — cleanseContrast — opposition

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Fielding Hills Lake Chelan Syrah Wine · Fielding Hills Winery — Lake Chelan · Lake Chelan the dish's smoke finds 'smoked olive' in the glass; a shared note, carried across. Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.

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Trimbach Gewurztraminer Seigneurs de Ribeaupierre Wine · Trimbach · Alsace the dish's smoke finds 'smoke' in the glass; a shared note, carried across. Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.

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Del Maguey Vida Mezcal Agave spirit · Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal · Oaxaca — Mezcal the dish's smoke finds 'campfire-smoke' in the glass; a shared note, carried across. Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.

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Caol Ila 12 Year Old Single Malt Whisky · Caol Ila Distillery · Islay the dish's smoke finds 'smoke' in the glass; a shared note, carried across. 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.

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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