ZOMGWTFBBQ!!! ERIC RIPERT IN THE CITY!!!

If there's one person that could actually make me go to NYC /shudder, it's Eric Ripert. Most chefs who's cuisine I really want to try are either local (Keller, Mina, Ogden) or have branches in Vegas or the Left Coast (Andres, Robuchon, Boulud, Savoy) so I've had no real reason to leave my comfy time zone. Still, there are two White Whales that elude me: Grant Achatz and Eric Ripert. Apparently they don't NEED to prove themselves out here >_< A pox on them both!

Well, Ripert is coming to my neck of the woods for a one-time-only, first-ever-in-SF rock star type event at Aqua. MON April 20th, $130. Had I learned about it before today I'd already have reservations but, sadly, I am currently wait-listed. /cry

Is he cooking his dishes? IDK. Is he taking Aqua's menu and doing his spin on them? I don't care. All I know it's it's Ripert @ Aqua on the 20th and the website had no 411 so I called about 3.8 seconds after the letters formed on my screen. Honestly, he could toss a grain of Fleur de Sel on each dish as it goes out for service (while grinning that patented Eric Ripert grin) and I'd be happy. I'm a total food geek...sue me.

I shall keep you posted...