The 13 Course Meal!

I am so lucky to have my own personal IT guy! He got the pics from his phone to my desktop for me! The quality of the pics aren't great but they will do.

So this restaurant a vendor took us to in Chicago was called Moto. I was really looking forward to this experience after we got the invitation. I had checked out their website prior to going and was intrigued by the description of their food. So in no particular order, because I uploaded the pictures all crazy, here are the 13 courses we noshed on while drinking fine wine and beer!


This was a 3 piece dessert course. It consisted of a mini cheeseburger that actually tasted like a banana split, a cherry bomb complete with a flame, and a log that tasted like pumpkin pie! Yummo! The cherry bomb even kind of blew up in your mouth!


This dessert was called Ants on a Log. It was a celery sorbet. It doesn't sound appetizing but let me tell you it was! I can't remember what the white stuff was, but the ants on top were made of chocolate!

This may look like a dessert but it was far from it! It was some kind of duck puree with a mole sauce. The white stuff was really spicy hot! They called it a Mexican cannoli. I really didn't care for this course.

This one was called Reuben Lasagna. It was delish! It tasted just like a Reuben sandwich!

Cuban Cigar! I really liked this one too! It was a pulled pork wrapped in kale leaves. The ashes were ground up poppy seeds! GOB didn't care for this one. It even had an edible paper label on it!

A rarity, I know! A picture of me!

This one was kinda cool. The chef had the pineapple rings wrapped in aluminum foil and were in a soda keg pressurized with CO2. The pipette had a capon broth in it. So as you took a bite of the fizzy, jerk flavored pineapple, you were supposed to squirt in some of the broth. It was tasty, but weird!

This one was called Seared Buffalo Hot Wings. It was capon breast on top of shredded capon leg. The paper was edible and VERY spicy. Also the little red dot was another spicy sauce. I can't remember the white sauce...probably bleu cheese or ranch flavor.

This one was called Loaded Fries. It was a dollop of mashed potatoes with bacon, cheese, and onion on top. The funny part was when the waiters poured what we thought was candle wax on top of this dish! It turns out the candle that was burning at our table was actually made from beef fat! Again, weird but tasty!

This one was called Gruyere and Onions. The cheese was melted to the side of the bowl and then the waiters came around and poured the hot broth in the bowl. The curly thing on top of the onions was like a dehydrated onion puff. GOB said it tasted like a Funyun.

This was actually our 2nd course. It was called Scrambled Eggs and Muffin. The egg looking thing was actually a extremely light puff that tasted like garlic-it just melted in your mouth. The scrambled egg was a puree of carrots and something else I can't remember but it was good! And the other thing looked like a tator tot but it was a shrimp bite. Very creative!

The very first course, I forgot to take a picture of. It was an extremely thin piece of garlic bread with an edible paper on it that had the vendor's logo on it.

This was a very fun experience. It was something I wouldn't probably go for if we had to foot the bill ourselves. It also took 4.5 hours!

Also, the restaurant had just finished filming a reality tv show there. It will be on in 2010 on the Planet Green channel (a Discovery channel) and is called Future Food. I also heard that the chefs that own this restaurant were on the Food Network's Iron Chef show one time! It'll be cool to watch the show!