What you must eat: The chestnut soup at FarmTable Kitchen. It's not fancy, FarmTable Kitchen. It's a rustic-chic restaurant on the second level of the Locale Market, a bustling bi-level St. Pete, Florida, food emporium with scratch-made and specially chosen packaged foods. My entire dinner there was phenomenal, but the chestnut soup was a holy-cannoli, how-can-life-be-this-kind?, I-must-savor-every-single-bite stand-out.
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The base is a rich, creamy broth with the earthy, season-perfect flavor of chestnuts. To serve it, the server brings over a large, shallow bowl-plate combo that has dots of hand-crafted marshmallows, spicy praline pecans, and dried cranberries. Then, with a light-hearted dash of drama, s/he slowly pours the chestnut broth into the bowl.
Yes, that good. And such a fitting complement of ingredients for autumn and winter.
The Locale and FarmTable Kitchen is owned by celebrity chefs Michael Mina and Don Pintabona. I'll post more on the Edible Orlando website within a few days, and possibly more here too. Stay tuned.
Eat enthusiastically,
Rona