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Restaurant Yuu Offers Dessert Tasting Menu
September 10, 2024, 5:38.42 pm ET

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Photo: Restaurant Yuu/Jordan Sapally

Michelin-starred Restaurant Yuu is launching a dessert-tasting menu served at their bar.

Menu highlights include:

• Furano Melon, from Hokkaido, Japan (a region known for its high-quality melon) served with yellow peach compote, mango pudding, and verbena infused sorbet

• Mont Blanc, a reimaged tart sized dessert of sweetened local chestnut purée with Yamazaki 12-year Whiskey cream and smoke, a play on the nineteenth-century dessert created in Paris

• Grapes and Yogurt, with yogurt espuma (foam), kiwi, local grape, and white wine and yuzu gin alginate

• Apple Pie, perfect for fall, made with Honeycrisp apples, Calvados caramel, chestnut cream, fig oil, and house-made pastry dough prepared using traditional French Tarte Tatin technique

Furano Melon, from Hokkaido, Japan (a region known for its high-quality melon) served with yellow peach compote, mango pudding, and verbena infused sorbet

Mont Blanc, a reimaged tart sized dessert of sweetened local chestnut purée with Yamazaki 12-year Whiskey cream and smoke, a play on the nineteenth-century dessert created in Paris

Grapes and Yogurt, with yogurt espuma (foam), kiwi, local grape, and white wine and yuzu gin alginate

Apple Pie, perfect for fall, made with Honeycrisp apples, Calvados caramel, chestnut cream, fig oil, and house-made pastry dough prepared using traditional French Tarte Tatin technique•

This limited-time menu will be offered throughout September on the 10th, 11th, 12th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 24th, 25th, and 26th.

The dessert tasting by Executive Pastry Chef Masaki Takahashi features a four-course menu with tea pairing and take-home sweets for $100 per person. There are only six seats per seating, available every half hour from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, with each seating lasting 1 hour. Take-Home Desserts will include house-made almond and hazelnut chocolates.



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