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She runs into the prep kitchen and starts pulling bowls out of the steamer rack, stripping off plastic wrap bowed and shrunk by the heat, testing each bowl, then dashing - high-top sneakers pounding the uneven floor and cracked red tiles - back to the hot line.Īlexandra Holt preparing chawanmushi. Lauren Salvo, Roxanne’s only other employee, talks to the crowd while Alexandra graffities homemade hot sauce onto the lozenges of foie-stuffed pastry, then spins to turn her attention to the first load of chawanmushi (second course) steaming on the stovetop behind her. The first course - a foie gras mille-feuille with preserved sea buckthorn and pistachio cream - is already plated, sitting half-done on a sheet tray balanced on a cooler. The dinner is expansive, luxurious, goofy, and it represents something like 200 individual plates, every one of which will be prepared by Alexandra. Two and a half hours of chili crisp and tater tots, leek culurgiones and escargots. Tonight’s menu is nine courses, prix-fixe. She smiles, says hey, says thank-you, asks about allergies, says thanks again, points out where the bathrooms are, then bolts back to the prep kitchen to pull the Texas toast out of a temporary Emergency Oven that’s only big enough to hold a single half-sheet tray. I just wanna die in a restaurant.” One Night on Christian StreetĪlexandra steps out in front of the dining room. “And I’m like, retirement? Fucking RETIREMENT? No, man. “A few days ago, someone asked me if I had plans for retirement,” the 29-year-old tells me, her voice sounding mystified.

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