Dinner At The Art Museum

From time to time Panorama, the excellent restaurant at the Saint Louis Art Museum, offers a prix fixe tasting menu with beverage pairings (not necessarily wine). Last night the theme was bubbles - prosecco, sparkling rose, champagne and fizzy moscato. Mrs. C and I were in attendance. Executive chef Ivy Magruder and wine consultant Mike Ward explained the offerings to the crowd, at least those who looked up from their phones. Yum.               

Dinner At The Art Museum

The St. Louis Art Museum has an excellent restaurant, Panorama, named, I suppose, for its sweeping view of the statue of Louis IX and Art Hill. The restaurant got terrible reviews when it first opened. The current executive chef, Ivy Magruder, has engineered a complete turn around.

We had not heard about this until a couple of days ago. The museum hardly publicizes it but one Friday a month, Panorama runs a multi-course, prix fixe tasting menu they call Art At The Table. Mrs. C hapened to find out about it and we attended last night's meal. It has a seafood theme. Very, very good. We booked for June on the spot.

That's Chef Magruder in the second picture. Bottom, the entrance to the George Caleb Bingham exhibit. It closes tomorrow. We're going this afternoon.