All Spice

Name: All Spice
Address: 1602 S El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA, 94402, US
Telephone: (650) 627-4303
Price range: $$$$

Modern Indian$$$$

Dinner Tue–Sat evenings, 3-course prix-fixe; closed Sun & Mon

Starters (3-course prix-fixe dinner, $75/person)

Garlic butter corn ribs
- Vegetarian
Smoked paprika, dill yogurt dip
Summer tomato salad
- Vegetarian
Charred heirloom tomatoes, tomato tartar, tomato essence, mozzarella mousse
Basil-cured hamachi
Witches' fingers grapes, mission figs and cucumber in a jalapeño-grape leche
Coco loco shrimp
Warm-spice marinated tiger shrimp, lemongrass tapioca pudding, loads of coconut
Lemon and clove scented fried chicken thigh
Mustard potatoes, hot butter sauce, rose honey
Poblano and tomatillo soup
- Vegetarian
Cotija toast, queso fresco, cumin pepitas, heirloom tomato
Ode to My Wife: marigold-roasted beets
- Vegetarian
Frisée, cardamom-scented brazil nuts, marigold vinaigrette
Wild mushroom tart
- Vegetarian
Gruyere, goat cheese cream, coffee-balsamic glaze
Lentil burger-ette
- Vegetarian
Classic street food with lentils, egg omelette, pomegranate and tomato chutneys on a Hawaiian bun

Lot 29 Upper Prime NY strip steak ($7 supplement)
Charred marvel stripe tomato, pine and porcini crust, cider radishes, sherry vinaigrette
Braised beef cheeks massaman
Crispy marble potatoes, peanuts, watercress, nuoc cham, kale
Local black cod
Black beluga lentils, edamame, jalapeño cream, soy-brown butter glace
Double-cooked king salmon
Poached and roasted, carrot essence, field carrots, crispy quinoa, tonnata sauce
"Tandoori" chicken
Confit chicken leg quarter, ghee potato pavé, pickled onion, roasted mushroom, smoked tomato essence
Summer eggplant "steak"
- Vegetarian
Pecan-miso glaze, herbed risotto, béarnaise sauce

Menu items and prices are approximate and may have changed — call the restaurant to confirm.

Tandoori: Cooked in a tandoor, a deep, charcoal- or gas-fired clay oven that reaches very high heat. Tandoori chicken is bone-in pieces marinated in yogurt, lemon, ginger-garlic and spices (the red color is mostly Kashmiri chili or food coloring), skewered and roasted until charred. Naan is slapped onto the same oven's walls. On this menu as: "Tandoori" chicken.
Kulfi: Dense, un-churned frozen dessert made by reducing milk for hours, flavored with cardamom, pistachio, mango or saffron and frozen in moulds, richer and slower-melting than ice cream. Falooda is the dessert-drink of rose syrup, vermicelli, basil seeds, milk and a scoop of kulfi. On this menu as: Malted chocolate "kulfi" redux.