The decor for dinner this evening was almost as good as the food itself: Alkemē, in Santa Fe, bills itself as Vietnamese Heritage Cuisine Reimagined, and was ... wonderful. I wish we had the stomach capacity to manage the tasting menus, but as it was, I had an extraordinary soup of shrimp and Mapo-style (call it Sichuan, more or less) sauce and dashi custard; followed by a most complex mushroom and tofu filled cabbage roll or 4 in another equally complex sauce, and with some woven rice noodles, lots of pickles, and so on. We will be back (if we can ever get a table, again - it's not exactly a walk-in spot) ...
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