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| - There is no sign, like any true great French bistro. The minute you step into the restaurant it is as if you are transported to Paris of the 1920's. The decor is classic bistro with dim lighting and old world feel. The waiters wear vests and clean white aprons and greet everyone with warmth. You just know you are going to be taken care of.
Everyone's food at the table looked delicious, but I wasn't able to take a bit before their dishes were already half finished, so I can only comment on my own food. I had the shrimp risotto. This is not exactly French, but the French version of an Italian classic. The risotto was perfectly cooked with just enough bite to the rice to not make you feel like you are eating baby food. The shrimp were delicious and fit the saffron infused rice perfectly.
As for dessert, I was able to sneak more than one bite off of everyone else's plate. ;) My rum baba came in what seemed like a pool of simple syrup. This made me worried because I do not enough overly sweet desserts. However, the syrup was balanced, not overly sweet or rum-y. The cake itself was almost egg bread life and soaked up the syrup wonderfully. The chocolate tart was the MOST AMAZING chocolate tart ever! Think dark, bitter sweet, creamy, rich and buttery. Good, right? Well, multiply that by 100 and this is what this tart tasted like. I would come back to just have this tart again.
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