Sarah Salim
The Catbird Seat | Nashville, TN | February 2026
FEATURED PAIRINGS
Seafood Snacks: (1) Hay-Smoked Oysters, Shaved Fennel-Apple Ice, Lime, Staghorn Sumac; (2) Razor Clams, Fermented Vichyssoise Sauce, Limequats, Dill-Chive Powder; (3) Cured Scallops, Blood Orange-Peach Pit Shrub, Honey, Dill Oil, Tangerine Lace; (4) Bucksnort Trout Rillette, Butter Cracker, Osetra Caviar paired with (1) Chardonnay/Pinot Noir/Pinot Meunier, Chartogne-Taillet, Sainte Anne, Champagne, France; (2) Yamadanishiki/Gohyakumangoku, Tedorigawa, Kinka Daiginjo Nama, Ishikawa, Japan
Fried Lion’s Mane Mushrooms, Roasted Maitake Mushrooms, Celeriac-Pistachio Purée, Black Apple Tare, Corn-Fig Leaf-Sichuan Peppercorn Furikake paired with Chardonnay, Racines, Sta. Rita Hills, California, 2021
Roasted Delicata Squash, Fermented Tomato Sauce Choron, Salsa Seca, Shiso paired with Grillo/Insolia, Cos, Rami, Vittoria, Sicily, Italy, 2023
Smoked Stuffed Chicken Wing, Fermented Black Truffle Chicken Jus, Chicken Tare, Shaved Macadamia Nuts, Fermented Chiles, Candied Seaweed paired with Pinot Noir, Peay, Savoy Vineyard, Anderson Valley, California, 2021
PHOTOS: ALEXANDER ZEREN