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How to eat white truffles at Restaurant Guy Savoy

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Alba white truffle risotto, available for a limited time at Restaurant Guy Savoy.

Alba white truffles are one of the most acclaimed and expensive foods in the world. Restaurant Guy Savoy is one of the most acclaimed and expensive restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip. So even though the truffles come from the Piedmont region of northern Italy and Savoy’s Caesars Palace restaurant—his only one outside of Paris—is distinctly French, there is a natural fit.

If you’re going to consume white truffles, you should go all out. And November is the time.

Savoy currently offers a limited-time, seven-course white truffle menu ($420) as well as an a la carte option including four of those dishes: pumpkin soup with poached egg and truffles ($135); Alba white truffle risotto ($120); scallops two ways, as carpaccio in a vegetable crust and roasted in its own shell with frozen cauliflower mousse ($130); and roasted guinea hen with salsify and hazelnut-watercress coulis ($140), littered, of course, with white truffle shavings.

The pièce de résistance of Guy Savoy's white truffle menu: roasted guinea hen with salsify, hazelnut and watercress coulis and plenty of shavings of white truffles.

The seven-course menu also includes cheese and dessert courses of Brie with white truffle, apple baked in a spiced sugar crust, and the lovely Mont Blanc, a white cylinder of crisp, sweet meringue enclosed around chestnut-infused pastry cream.

It’s almost impossible to top a dish of creamy risotto projected into perfection by a pile of earthy white truffle shards shaved right in front of your eyes. The musky aroma offers supple satisfaction before you even take the first bite. But the showpiece among these seasonal offerings is the guinea hen. The richness of the meat—which is even leaner than chicken—defies explanation, and every crispy skin- and truffle-laced bite is a transportive, autumnal experience.

Guy Savoy is known for its year-round use of truffles, particularly the black ones that lend rich aromas and flavors to the chef’s signature artichoke soup, served with mushroom brioche smeared with black truffle butter. But the Alba whites are usually only available in late fall and early winter, so if this is a worthy splurge, act now. The special menu began last month and will be available until the second week of December.

Restaurant Guy Savoy Caesars Palace, 702-731-7286. Wednesday-Sunday, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

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