Mad Cap Cuisine
And then, of course: “What does the Island of Dr. Moreau look like as food?,” Davis continued. “Eventually we started with English Tea Service, and then it just kind of morphed.” Davis recruited José Andrés protege Taylor Persh to be his sous chef. “You basically went all the way through this really elaborate, very serious dinner. But as you eat the food, it had all this alcohol gelled into it. So you got progressively drunker and drunker with each dish and then we would lower the temperature. And there were faux fur shawls on the chairs. So eventually you’d end up wearing them everywhere. And then chef would sort of eventually get them to all come up and pick parts out of the carcass of a carved up animal from one of the courses. So by the end, you got all of these people in their Sunday best wearing fur, ripping the skull apart. And it was like, okay, our work is done here.” (The Las Vegas location has a 16-course dining experience based on 20,000 Leagues that’s just as unhinged, allegedly.)
