I just designed The French Laundry’s Wine Pairing Menu with Notebook AI

This is an excerpt from an article I wrote on Substack. Go to Substack for the complete article.

This question isn’t theoretical. Consider the following: A restaurant with a well-curated wine cellar loses their sommelier of 5 years, the same sommelier who designed the wine list. Could the Front of House (FOH) create wine pairings for the multi-course Michelin starred tasting menu with the assistance of AI?

AI could handle this task now, if given proper inputs: a detailed wine list, menu ingredients, the final menu, pricing constraints, and well-crafted queries. I decided to test my hypothesis will a couple real-world examples.

Using Notebook AI, I gathered data from two real-world Michelin starred restaurants, The French Laundry *** (TFL) in Yountville and Acquerello ** in San Francisco. Both sets of data are available to download from their websites.

For the rest of the article, go to Substack. The article is free.