Chef Ned Elliott, Pastry Chef Jodi Elliott, Foreign & Domestic, Foreign And Domestic, Austin, Texas, TX, Where to eat, Where to drink, Where to shop. Coffe, Bars, REstaurants, Insider Recommendations, Where the locals eat in Austin, Paris, France, New York, NY, Portland, OR, Oregon
Who
Husband-and-wife chefs Ned and Jodi Elliott own Foreign and Domestic in Austin, Texas.
Why
Both chefs trained in New York, before moving to Austin to open their own restaurant. Ned worked at the Essex House under chef Alain Ducasse and chef Thomas Keller at Per Se; Jodi worked in pastries at Gramercy Tavern.
Foreign & Domestic | Chefs Ned & Jodi Elliott
November 21, 2011
Foreign & Domestic
Hyde Park / Highland / Hancock
New American
306 East 53rd Street
Austin, TX 78751
T: 512.459.1010
Website:
Hours:
Tue- Thu: 5:30pm - 9:30pm
Fri - Sat: 5:30pm - 10:00pm
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Q & A with Chefs Ned & Jodi Elliott
A. A perfect meal for me at Foreign and Domestic would be to start with either popovers or the gougeres, followed by the venison heart tartare. Next a fish course, which would be a plate of the scallops and squid baked in ink with morcilla, pickled peppers, and almonds.
Q. Your drinks menu / wine list seems very focused. Talk about your point of view and perspective:
A. Our drinks and wine list is limited because of storage space. I also think that for a restaurant of our size we wanted to remain concise and focused in all aspects of the guests experience. I love certain Spanish and French wines and those varietals are represented on the list. We also saw that when the list was bigger, whether it was beer or wine, several of the items never sold.
Q. You’ve worked in some really upscale restaurants, what do you take from those experience to Foreign and Domestic and what do you leave behind?
A. First off, from the cooking part, we tried to take away the attention to detail, quality of ingredients, and most importantly technique, plus an all around sense of urgency.
From the guests perspective, we have kept the decor comfortable, but minimal. We wanted the experience to be fun, not stuffy and a great bargain.
Photographs courtesy of Foreign & Domestic
Recommendations
Ned & Jodi’s recommendations for where to eat, drink and shop in Austin, Portland, New York and Paris.
Advice / Tips
Kitchen | Essential Secret Weapon
Forethought
Our secret weapon is forethought. We are always thinking ahead and that has helped us to avoid some major catastrophes with being a new restaurant.
Pacojet
We also love using the pacojet, from ice creams, powders, oils, and the what not.
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Kitchen | Short Cuts
1. Freezing bacon to be able to slice it paper thin on a slicer. This way the fat doesn't melt.
2. When making caramelized onions, adding a little agave nectar to add sweetness, depth of flavor, and color.
3. Pureeing soups -- we like to make soups based upon a single flavor. We then cook that vegetable or ingredient several different ways and puree in a Vita-Mix for a long time, meaning 45 minutes to 90 minutes. The result is something silky smooth.
4. We add kombu to all of our stocks, which adds a great umami depth.
Portland, OR
Eat | Restaurants
Ken’s Artisan Pizza | Ned Ludd
Photographs courtesy of Ken’s Artisan Pizza | Ned Ludd
Not To Be missed | Ken’s Artisan Pizza
For a caesar salad, vegetable plate, sopressata pizza with Calabrian chiles, and whatever crisp or cobbler for dessert.
Not To Be missed | Ned Ludd
Get the pickle plate, sorrel gratin, any pork and trout entrees, they are always stellar, and the panna cotta. It’s a great place and Jason French is an awesome cook, totally underrated.
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Austin, TX
Find | Markets & Stores
Downtown Farmers Market
We love to go to the Downtown Farmers Market on Saturdays.
Boggy Creek
Every Wednesday with Billie Van, she loves the chickens.
Madina Market | Indian Food Stuffs
We love finding little obscure ethnic shops and markets, such as a place off of Research Boulevard, that just says, 'Indian Food Stuffs'. You can get Jaggery and assorted pickles there.
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Eat | Restaurants
Backspace | Salt Lick BBQ | Home Slice
Photo Credits: Liang Shi [flickr] | Salt Lick BBQ | ercwttmn [flickr]
Where The Locals Go | Home Slice Pizza
One of our ‘go to’ family spots. It’s New York street pizza, but it’s taken to a level of Patsy’s and Grimaldi’s.
Where The Locals Go | Backspace
The other of our ‘go to’ family spots. It has very good brick oven pizza.
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Iconic Texas Food | Salt Lick BBQ
For barbecue brisket -- I love the pork ribs.
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Late Night
Sam’s BBQ or East Side King at the Grackle Bar.
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Drink | Bars
Deep Eddy Cabaret
Good dive bar for cold beer.
Butterfly Bar
Cool little East Side spot to sit outside for a beer, where they have a bunch of chicken coops.
Dive Bar & Lounge
It’s new and great.
Liberty | The Grackle
Where a lot of young cooks and chefs hang. Smattering of fake ID’s, but it’s fun for drinks. A Schlitzer, PBR and a few shots of bourbon. Eat pork buns and chicken karaage.
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Drink | Coffee
Houndstooth Coffee | Thunderbird Coffee
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Houndstooth Coffee
Awesome for coffee. These guys are French pressing every glass.
Thunderbird
They have a single cup bar with Intelligentsia coffee.
Casa Brasil
We carry Casa Brasil’s Peaberry Reserve at the restaurant. It’s very good and unique, without being over the top.
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Resources
Ruhlman’s Ratio App & Cookbooks
A favorite cheat sheet is Ruhlmans Ratio App and the a plethora of professional cookbooks that we own (over 500).
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Recommendations
Details of Ned & Jodi’s recommendations for where to eat, drink and shop in Austin, Portland, New York and Paris.
Recipes
New York, NY
Eat | Restaurants
Russ & Daughters | Yakitori Totto | The Doughnut Plant
Photographs courtesy of Russ & Daughters | Find. Eat. Drink. | The Doughnut Plant
Grimaldi’s
For pies and Peroni’s.
Land Marc Tribeca
For a bottle of a Loire Valley red and a big rib eye.
Peasant
The food is so badass. I love when they have the suckling pig with polenta. Sweet, sour, salty, crispy, creamy -- all the textures and all the flavors that you want.
For late night and chicken.
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Eat | Deli
Russ & Daughter’s
On a weekend morning to get breakfast foods.
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Eat | Doughnuts
Doughnut Plant
I love their grapefruit glaze and the one with fresh pomegranate seeds on top and pomegranate molasses inside the doughnut.
Bagels & Bad Coffee
And we crave good bagels and bad coffee on a train from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
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Paris, France
Tete De Veau at Spring | Provencal Beef Stew at Les Cocottes
Photographs courtesy of TelepathicParanoia [flickr] | Stephan Maloman [flickr]
Eat | Restaurants
L'Agrume
Just great food -- it’s small, with a kitchen counter and you can see the chef and the dishwasher. Not touristy.
Le Chateaubriand
Just lots of different flavors.
Spring
Chef Daniel Rose is from Chicago and it’s very high end, yet salt of the earth.
Les Cocottes
Near the Eiffel Tower, everything is very pristine and at the same time rustic.
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