We went to a new restaurant on Webster Street in Alameda called CK. CK is in the process of getting its liquor license so “it’s bring your own bottle.” For diners that were surprised by this, the wait staff suggests that they walk across the street to the corner store, buy a bottle of wine, and come back. They hold their table while they do so. We knew this in advance, so we came armed with a bottle of Charles Krug Generations since that goes well with everything.
We started off by being served warm bread and whipped butter. There is nothing wrong with that!
There is a nice assortment of appetizers to choose from. There was one called Roasted Bone Marrow that was served with bacon marmalade and toast. This sounded very unusual to us. Since we’ve never had bone marrow before, we asked our server what the texture was for bone marrow. She described it as kind of like fat or gelatin. We opted to save that experience for our next visit. We had the Lentil Cakes instead. The…