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March 21st, 2008 edition of The Daily Sauce: Food and Wine. Visit Our Food and Wine Archive.

Hold Your Liquor

Here’s a pairing that might surprise you: blini with smoked salmon mousse and dill cream served with a cocktail of pomegranate juice, fresh mint, lavender and Voss sparkling water. That’s right, not vodka – water. The drink is one of five nonalcoholic cocktails created by Ted Kilgore (pictured here), master mixologist at Monarch Restaurant, for a multicourse dinner on Wednesday.

Other highlights include chilled jasmine tea with honey and lemon served alongside poached prawns, napa cabbage slaw and honey-wasabi aioli, and a cocktail of white cranberry juice, pear nectar and muddled rosemary paired with rosemary roasted lamb chops, caramelized pears and greens with a lemon-oregano vinaigrette.

And that’s just part of the $55 deal, which ends on a particularly luxurious note: chocolate empanadas, bing cherry syrup and bittersweet mousse served with hot frothed Mexican drinking chocolate. For a moment there, you completely forgot about booze, didn’t you?

Sauce pick: Non-alcoholic dinner, March 26 – 6:30 p.m.
Where to get it: Monarch Restaurant, 7401 Manchester Road, Maplewood
Info: www.monarchrestaurant.com, 314.644.3995

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