Mike's on the Avenue, New Orleans

Wa∙bi \wà-be\ [Japanese}] 1a. perfection through spontaneous imperfection e.g. ( like the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or when someone has one brown eye and one green eye.) b. when something a little bit different makes the end result perfect esp ( as in dining at Mike's on the Avenue

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On every plate that leaves Chef Mike Fennelly's kitchen at Mike's on the Avenue, the food has been painstakingly prepared and arranged for maximum flavor and visual impact. The color, texture and composition have to be just right. But the effect Fennelly wants to achieve is not fussiness. "My aim," he says, "is to make the food look like it was dropped onto the plate spontaneously—and landed in exactly the right places." We call this the WABI effect. This artistic sensibility, combined with Fennelly's cooking talents, has earned him numerous awards and accolades to include a "superior" rating of five beans from The Times-Picayune's restaurant reviewer, and inclusion on Food & Wine magazine's list of America's Top Ten Young Chefs.

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