The Top 2 Tasting Menus Near Ember
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Rank 1. Six Test Kitchen
Contemporary
In a Paso Robles industrial space with soaring ceilings and a wraparound wood counter, Chef Ricky Odbert practices a restrained craft of dry-aged fish and meat arranged with architectural precision. His chawanmushi with smoked pork and clam emulsion, his barley koji ice cream balanced against miso, suggest a kitchen that understands how flavors need silence to resonate.
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Rank 2. The Restaurant at Justin
Farm-to-Table New American
Chef Rachel Haggstrom works the orchard and gardens surrounding this winery restaurant to compose a single tasting menu of exacting restraint. Snapper arrives shingled with potato, duck glistens with its own reduction—each plate argues that the best ingredient is the one grown a few steps away.