The tasting menu at Uberto ends, like many others at restaurants of this caliber, with mignardises. Roughly translated from French, the word means “dainty preciousness.” Roughly translated from fine dining, it means the macarons, truffles, and other bijou sweets designed to soften the blow of an eye-popping bill.
What makes the tasting menu at Uberto unlike most others—besides the fact that it’s located in Gay, Ga., a country town known for its semiannual Cotton Pickin’ Festival—is that there is no check accompanying the miso-andchanterelle bonbon, amber canelé, and freeze-dried lemon-verbena ice cream that tastes, in the best possible way, like Trix. Provided you’re staying on-site, that is, in one of the four impeccable cabins of Quercus, a 3,800-acre cattle ranch and microresort where the $2,700 nightly rate includes dinner and so much more.
