"Formerly known as Workshop, Aaron Adams’s fancy vegan restaurant enters the new year rebranded as Astera — a vegan dining experience revolving around the “horticultural cuisine of Cascadia.” Similar to Workshop and the influential (and now closed) Farm Spirit, the menu utilizes locally farmed and foraged seasonal produce. Additionally, ingredients like smoked onion shio koji and fermented habanero are evocative of its fermentation-centric sister restaurant Fermenter. The symphony of vegetable courses vary, depending on what’s in season, but one can expect savory dishes like broken kabocha squash and black trumpet mushroom broth with kelp oil and sweets like celeriac ice cream with sunchoke caramel and roasted apple puree. Astera is by reservation only." - Waz Wu
