"There is food cooked from a recipe. It can be good, but it's never more than filling. There is food cooked because the chef loves to cook. It can be great, even memorable. Then there is food cooked because the chef loves diners to enjoy eating. At this level, dishes can be transforming. You leave a different person than you arrived. Amuse is the latter. I'll never think of curry carrot soup the same way again. I intend to go again and again until either I've learned all I can about eating or I don't fit through the door. Worth coming to southern Oregon for. Service was impeccable. Overheard conversations were amusingly Ashlandish. Architecture inviting and homey without being overly familiar."
