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For our party of 4, we ordered 2 club menus (5 course tasting menu) and 8 a la carte dishes...I was glad they let us mix it up so we can have more variety. I thought the a la carte dishes would be tasting portions, but they were much larger than I expected (more like the size of a typical appetizer course of a 3-course menu). The portions were very generous on the 5-course menus as well.
We started off with an amuse-bouche of some sort of avocado soup...very refreshing. The 3-bread selection was great (I can only imagine what it must be like next door with 20+ choices!)...all were good but my favorite was the baguette.
Our a la carte dishes included LE FOIE GRAS (both the terrine and the seared), 2 orders of LE BURGER (beef & foie gras burger), 2 orders of LA CAILLE (quail stuffed with foie gras), so yeah, I think we went a bit overboard with the foie gras. :) On top of that, we ordered LE RIS DE VEAU (veal sweetbreads) and LE COCHON de lait (suckling pig). I don't think I've had a more decadent meal (well, maybe that time I had caviar and 5 cheeses for breakfast came close). Needless to say, all were amazing, but the best dishes had to be the burger and the pig. If I could do it over we probably could have ordered one less quail dish and picked only one of the foie gras courses.
The club menu included a tomato gazpacho soup, followed by the langoustine. Then there was a choice of the john dory or the veal (we got both). Everything was great, though overall I was more impressed by the a la carte dishes. What was really surprising was that the cheese selection actually came with 3 decent-sized portions (~1oz each) of different cheeses. After that, LES TARTES had 5(!) different kinds of little cakes. Needless to say, we were totally stuffed at the end, even after stuffing the hard cheeses in our purses for later (came in handy at 2am) :)
Almost all of the wines were over $100, but we were able to find a few that were less. The first bottle we got, an Hermitage, was pretty decent...the second, a Burgundy was a little meh (but then it was one of the cheapest on the list...didn't want to pay too much for a second bottle). The ambiance and service was good and we enjoyed seeing all the cooking on the other side of the counter.
I definitely recommend this place to anyone who wants to get the Robuchon experience but doesn't want to shell out the really big bucks for the restaurant next door (maybe someday...).
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