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Here’s Wylie Dufresne’s New wd~50 Tasting Menu (nymag)
**The dining room.** We learned earlier this week that Wylie Dufresne, a.k.a. the Susan Lucci of the Beard awards, would soon overhaul the entire menu at wd~50 in favor of a tasting-menu-only approach and, well, here's the menu. Diners will get thirteen courses for $155, and drink pairings, which are always inspired here, are an extra $85. As is Dufresne's wont, the menu just lists each dish's main ingredients, so it's impossible to know exactly what form any of these will take, but the chef's penchant for jokey dish names -- i.e., pho gras -- and unexpected flavor mash-ups are on full display. We're particularly interested in a dish called "sole, black licorice-pil pil, fried green tomato, fennel" because we can't even begin to imagine what that all tastes like together. Anyway, as the _Times_ first reported, the menu will make its debut a week from today and will also include the option of a shorter $75 tasting menu called "From the vault," which plays like a short greatest hits retrospective. That means lovers of deep-fried mayonnaise cubes -- a group Grub Street counts itself among -- can rejoice. Also worth noting: If you're eating at the ...
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