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And at Chishuru, whose prix fixe dinner menu is priced at £95, egusi — a seed used in soup, usually served with pounded yam — flavors an ice cream accompanying a meringue sponge.

With a pleasant chew, each bite represented a harmonious meeting of flavors akin to a fancy prix fixe morsel.

In a fancy Chinese banquet, the group is served dish by dish with time in between, similar to a French prix fixe meal.

Among the list of semifinalists, The Black Cypress had beat out Seattle’s white-tablecloth, prix fixe Lark, run by a chef already in possession of another James Beard Award.

In February, Walla Walla Restaurant Month offers prix fixe three-course menus at the town’s finest restaurants.