Keto at the raw bar

At Saturday’s tasting, the groom asked if the raw bar could be keto, then clarified no shellfish, no seaweed, and no ice because it “waters down the macros” — so I pivoted to wagyu tartare on cucumber coins and king trumpet ‘oysters’ with champagne mignonette. The bride loves it but wants the spread to read pure raw bar in photos for 110 guests with seven dietary flags, including low-FODMAP. Anyone else engineering gourmet optical illusions to keep the macro counters and the album happy?

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Did this last month: we draped food-safe acrylic “ice” over chilled sheet pans and hid gel packs under perforated trays so it photographed like a raw bar while the keto swaps stayed cold… “seven dietary flags, including low-FODMAP.” Hearts of palm “scallops” with lemon oil and chive tops plus cucumber “kelp” ribbons read seafood in pics, but tell your photog to shoot tight so the decoy ice and trumpet caps don’t get clocked.

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