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

Galawat Ke Kebab — Texture Through Fat Content (गलौटी कबाब) · as the Library describes it — mid weight · rich · smoky · adjust this plate →

Bridge — shared noteCut — cleanseContrast — opposition

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Springbank 10 Year Old Campbeltown Single Malt Whisky · Springbank Distillery · Campbeltown the dish's smoke meets 'slight-peat' in the pour; smoke speaking to smoke. Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.

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SOV Wheated Rye Whisky Whisky · Sons of Vancouver Distillery · Metro Vancouver the dish's smoke meets 'charred oak' in the pour; smoke speaking to smoke.

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Didier Dagueneau Pouilly-Fume Silex Wine · Didier Dagueneau · Pouilly-Fumé the dish's smoke meets 'gunflint' in the pour; smoke speaking to smoke. Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.

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Domaine Ostertag Riesling Muenchberg Grand Cru Wine · Domaine Ostertag · Alsace the dish's smoke meets 'volcanic smoke' in the pour; smoke speaking to smoke. Not yet carried in British Columbia — its page tells you where it comes from.

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Perfect Storm Oatmeal Stout Beer · Townsite Brewing · Powell River the dish's smoke meets 'roasted barley' in the pour; smoke speaking to smoke.

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1897 Amber Ale Beer · Stanley Park Brewing · Metro Vancouver the dish's smoke meets 'toasted malt flavour' in the pour; smoke speaking to smoke.

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