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| - Love, love, love the croque madame!!!!! Who can resist a cheese, ham, and fried egg sandwich covered in a mornay sauce? And dont forget the shoestring fries! But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Excellent sazerac, served neat, as it should be. And I have to complement the tap water, which was soft and sweet. Dont bother with the bottled water.
We tried the special appetizers for the day. The escargot, served with mini puff pastries and swimming in a lovely garlic, butter sauce, were very tender. The carrot soup, served with creme fraiche was light and sweet. And the oysters were very fresh and briny.
Portion size on the entrees is not uniform. The special entree for the day, scallops and gnocchi, was a perfect size, but the standard sauteed gnocchi menu item was HUGE. It was good, but I dont know how anyone, no matter how hungry, could get through even half the plate. And the menu description was a bit deceptive. The dish was described as being accompanied by a fricassee of vegetables, but the only "veggies" were sliced potatoes (which seemed an odd pairing with potato gnocchi), pimentos, and thinly shredded and blanched greens. Not my idea of vegetables.
Anyway, the dessert was fantastic--a coffee flavored pot de creme, served with some butter shortbread cookies. Yummy!
Service was pretty decent, not spectacular.
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