What do you get when you combine the talents of a pastry pro named Mathew and a practiced potions maker named Matt? The Mathew², a rotating cocktail-dessert pairing on the menu at the newly opened Pi in the CWE.

Created by pasty chef Mathew Rice and bar manager Matt Obermark, the current Mathew² explores the festive color and citrus tang of blood oranges. On the plated side, Rice prepares a shortbread tart filled with silky goat cheese that’s sweetened with a touch of sugar and vanilla and drizzled with a wintry compote of Bosc pear cooked in a house-made blood orange syrup. Meanwhile, Obermark shakes up what he’s dubbed the Scarlet Number, a mix of the blood orange syrup, Tanqueray London Dry, Aperol and Yellow Chartreuse that’s served up with an orange peel. The result: a one-two post-pie punch that will make dessert sophisticates swoon.

Rice stated that next up are a fig-bourbon pairing and a chocolate-vanilla solids-spirits complement. Whatever combo the duo concocts, we know it’s gonna be a celebratory sight on the dish and in the glass.

– Ligaya Figueras

Tags: Mathew Rice, Matt Obermark, Pi

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 17th, 2009 at 2:26 pm and is filed under Awesome eats, Drinking. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.