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| - When we got our steak back from the kitchen , it was served alongside a marrow bone and the butteriest, creamiest potatoes and some chanterelle sauce.
It the was best steak that we have had in a while, the flavors were exceptional, and the textures were perfect.
Les Desserts:
Le Jasmin-Jasmine Tea Chantilly with pineapple and lemon confit-very light, not bold jasmine flavor, but balanced texture and sweetness. La Violette-violet cream, yogurt sorbet and blueberry compote...very smooth, yogurt gave a bit of tartness, blueberry was bursting with flavor. L'Hibiscus-creamy hibiscus emulsion, and apple granite'...this was sort of disappointing as the hibiscus can be quite tart, and was not in this case...it's a great flavor potential that was not lived up to.
Le Chocolat-cocoa pods of chocolate and salted caramel semifreddo-basically salted caramel ice cream with chocolate. Nothing wrong with that!
We asked for a shared pot of Earl Grey tea and chose from the little treats on what they call the "chocolat cart". I had the banana eclair, the blueberrry violet tea cake, the opera cake, a caramel macaron...and that's all I remember. The tea cake had liquid fruit in the center, dipped in white chocolate, and was amazing. My wife makes a much better macaron.
The bill with generous tip was $1,400.00...definitely a splurge for us, and a big one at that.
The presented us with the menus(which we later found out were personalized, nice touch, there!) and the parting favor tea cake, in a lovely mini-shopping bag, which was delicious.
I waddled out of the restaurant 3 1/2 hours after being seated, stuffed to the gills, and happy, happy, happy!!!
Maybe in another 10 years.
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