At Vespertine, Jonathan Gold makes contact with otherworldly cooking. Is dinner for two worth $1,000?

Chef Jordan Kahn's new restaurant in Culver City (but also kind of on Jupiter) is an ambitious journey in both food and architecture, a local entry into the international culinary avant-garde.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • September 1, 2017
If you were looking for the oddest dish being served in an American restaurant right now, you should probably start with the fish course at Jordan Kahn’s new Vespertine, a dish that nudges the idea of culinary abstraction dangerously close to the...
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