Fourk yeah!

A 4 course meal for $49—sure please.

Fourk Kitchen is a brand new idea for the Reno eating scene, opened on the finish of April within the previous We Olive spot. Positioned at 4991 S. Virginia St., Suite B, it’s the second location of the model—the primary one being over the hill in Lincoln, California.

So what precisely makes Fourk so particular? Along with providing a prix fixe, four-course dinner Thursday via Sunday, the restaurant solely does one seating per night. The doorways open at 5:45 p.m. and dinner begins promptly at 6:30 p.m. Everybody—though seated at separate tables with simply their group—eats their programs on the identical time.

In between plates, the chef and proprietor Paul Jansen chats with patrons and makes bulletins, and the entire expertise seems like an intimate ceremonial dinner with strangers and mates, full with a comfortable fire, plush couches and fashionable fork paintings adorning the partitions.

At Fourk, the menu will change month-to-month after the primary run, however the present providing is offered via the tip of June.

The meal begins with a soup course; a silky cream of asparagus soup, topped with crispy smoked bacon and arugula microgreens. The soup was simply my favourite course of the evening. Chopped spears of asparagus add complexity, and the bacon a little bit of saltiness that performs off the vegetable-heavy fare.

The subsequent course is a burrata caprese salad made with basil herb oil and balsamic discount. It’s similar to a caprese salad, however the burrata is a contemporary twist that performs to the culinary business’s present obsession. Burrata is an Italian cows’ milk cheese made by combining mozzarella and cream. For this salad, it’s served atop a big slice of tomato and completed with smaller heirloom tomatoes topped with a house-made balsamic.

The primary course is a beef Wellington, cooked medium uncommon to medium. Every particular person steak is wrapped in a comfortable puff pastry. Chef Paul will get inventive together with his rendition of the basic, serving a mushroom sauce over the Wellington and potato puree. It’s all topped with a cabernet discount that performs nicely off the umami flavors of the sauce.

The ultimate course is dessert—a port macerated strawberry poppyseed shortcake. Once more, nothing is strictly because it seems. As a substitute, the shortcake is manufactured from cornbread and topped with contemporary strawberry slices and served over a spattering of selfmade whipped cream. The cornbread makes the dessert much less candy than you’d usually think about, although the cake additionally comes throughout a bit stiff as a result of change-up, as nicely. It’ll seemingly be a type of desserts that’s good for some and simply so-so for others.

In relation to drinks, there may be an possibility so as to add a line-up of tastings to every course, completely paired to go along with every together with champagne, white wine and crimson wine. Or, you possibly can choose wines by the glass or bottle to get pleasure from all through the meal. When you present up early (as early as 5:30 p.m.) you possibly can get pleasure from a contented hour with 24% off of glasses of wine till 6:15 p.m. The dinner formally begins at 6:30 with a speech from the chef and a hearty “Fourk yeah!” chant to start out off the evening.

If you wish to expertise Fourk, you’ll want to enroll fast. The Lincoln location usually has a two-month wait listing for reservations because of a superb native repute and five-star Yelp evaluation. To enroll, head to the web site FourkKitchen.com, or make a reservation via Yelp.