MÄS is a

Pacific Northwest The Pacific Northwest (PNW; ) is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common ...

restaurant in

Ashland, Oregon Ashland is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. It lies along Interstate 5 in Oregon, Interstate 5 approximately 16 miles (26 km) north of the California border and near the south end of the Rogue Valley. The city's population w ...

. Chef Josh Dorcak opened the restaurant in 2018.

Description

MÄS is a 16-seat

tasting menu A tasting menu is a collection of several dishes in small portions, served by a restaurant as a single meal. The French name for a tasting menu is . Some restaurants and chefs specialize in tasting menus, while in other cases, it is a special o ...

restaurant in

, featuring

seafood Seafood is any form of Marine life, sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including Fish as food, fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of Mollusca, molluscs (e.g., bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters, and mussel ...

-focused Cascadian (or

) cuisine. The menu has included duck breast with acorn miso and maple blossoms, corn dashi

chawanmushi is a savoury egg custard dish in Japanese cuisine. Unlike many other custards, it is usually eaten as a dish in a meal, as chawanmushi contains savory rather than sweet ingredients. The custard consists of an egg mixture seasoned with soy sauce, ...

with King crab and

goat milk Goat milk is the milk of domestic goats. Goats produce about 2% of the world's total annual milk supply. Some goats are bred specifically for milk. Goat milk naturally has small, well-emulsified fat globules, which means the cream will stay ...

, foraged sea lettuces, lamb, and

Wagyu Wagyu (, Hepburn romanization, Hepburn: ''wagyū'', ) is the collective name for the four principal List of Japanese cattle breeds, Japanese breeds of beef cattle. All wagyū cattle originate from early twentieth-century cross-breeding between ...

History

Chef Josh Dorcak opened the 16-seat

restaurant in 2018.

Reception

In 2022, MÄS was included in ''

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'' list of the top 50 restaurants in the U.S. Megan duBois selected MÄS for Oregon in

Eat This, Not That ''Eat This, Not That!'' is a media franchise owned and operated by co-author David Zinczenko. It bills itself as "The leading authority on food, nutrition, and health." No independent authority has verified that claim. The original book series ...

's 2022 list of the best

farm-to-table Farm-to-table (or farm-to-fork, and in some cases farm-to-school) is a social movement which promotes serving local food at restaurants and school cafeterias, preferably through direct acquisition from the producer (which might be a winery, brewe ...

restaurants in each U.S. state. Susanne Robertson included the business in '' Eater Portland'' 2022 list of Ashland's 20 "essential" eateries. In 2023, Dorcak was nominated in the Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific category of the

James Beard Foundation Award The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation to recognize chefs, restaurateurs, authors and journalists in the United States. They are scheduled around James Beard's May 5 birthday. The media awar ...

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* {{Official website, https://masashland.com 2018 establishments in Oregon Ashland, Oregon Pacific Northwest restaurants in Oregon Seafood restaurants in Oregon

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