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

Injeolmi — Pounded Glutinous Rice Tteok (인절미) · as the Library describes it — mid weight · led by toast · adjust this plate →

Bridge — shared noteCut — cleanseContrast — opposition

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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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Blanc de Blanc NV Sparkling wine · Tinhorn Creek Vineyards · Golden Mile Bench the dish's toast finds 'toasted almond' in the glass; a shared note, carried across.

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Mount Gay XO Rum · Mount Gay Distilleries · Barbados — Rum the dish's toast finds 'toasted oak' 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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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