Craig LaBan heaps the praise on the latest from Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran’s tapas bar, Jamonera.

Turney’s most stunning dishes, though, are dressed in squid-ink black. The calamari marinate in ink before getting crisped and are so ebony they look to have been fried in a volcano. But they’re delicate and tender, with a smoky wisp of pimenton Spanish paprika, a squirt of lemon, and garlic chips. With the mussels escabeche, whose vermouth-marinated mollusks are cleverly in a sardine can, squid ink completes the ingenious trompe l’oeil garnish of faux mussel shells molded and baked around actual shells with a potato-garlic tuile dough.

Three Bells – Excellent

Craig LaBan review: Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran’s latest, Jamonera [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Jamonera [Official Site]

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