Graham Dodds, execuchef at Central 214, is doing some crazy stuff with eggs. He serves a Poached Farm Egg: an egg atop a Lyonnais salad of chopped greens, lardons and crumbled Caprino Royale goat cheese ($10 at lunch and pictured below the jump). Cut the floppy egg with your knife and the viscous yolk flows out like molten lava and runs with an iridescence that makes you wonder if you should be wearing protective dark glasses. {Ed. note: I’m leaving it in!]
The unavoidable feeling of richness carries through to the taste as well. It reminds me of what a farm egg is supposed to taste like. They do because Dodds buys them from Steven at Urban Acres. You can too. They come from Yellow Prairie Farm in Caldwell Texas, where the farmer’s name is Dan. He is just one of the small producers that Dodds has fastidiously sought out during his years working as a chef.
Jump for the glory of Graham Dodds’ eggs.
I got the scoop on Central 214’s farm-to-table approach last week from when I dined with two California winemakers and a wine industry marketing executive from San Francisco. We had the triple cooked fries (best in Dallas) and slow-cooked goat brisket (people almost forgot their manners scrambling for morsels) but we also tried the exquisite poached farm egg. I was pleased to see their obvious pleasure in the food they were served and their surprise that such a central Californian idea being executed so successfully in Dallas.
