Post by laurel on Sept 24, 2009 16:59:47 GMT -5
First, thanks to all OPF for making our trip twice as good as it would have been without all your knowledge and advice. We've been here since Sunday, staying at Paris Perfect "Champagne," which is great.
Today was our big treat day - lunch at Lasserre - 17 Av. Franklin Roosevelt. Beautiful area. It was the most wonderful meal of our lives. Beautiful place - we had asked for a table under the retractable roof, which we got..the roof was open, it was a lovely day. Masses of orchids decorate the dining room. Service was unlike anything we've experienced, but even as formal as it is, we didn't feel anything but special. Amuses bouches were tiny, delicious jewels, so beautifully presented. Starters were a salad of heirloom tomatoes and watermelon ..all diced in tiny cubes the exact same size, and in molded into a circle. Served with two long crackers with crab something on top. So yum. Husband had beautiful salmon along with a oyster shell with diced oyster and a tarragon/shallot mayonnaise. I ordered roast chicken, never dreaming I'd get...a beautiful, perfectly cooked bird - boned and sliced "a table" with a sauce that was out of this world. There were herbs under the skin, etc. Came with potatoes, haricot verts and pearl onions with a taste of the same sauce. Kenny had langoustines fricassee that he adored. Then dessert, both of us a chocolate millefeuille served with a little ice cream on the side. Then, coffee, then a tray with two each of five little sweet bites. Besides the waiters in tails, busboys in white dinner jackets...everyone was lovely. Other diners were all French - some business execs, but mostly people our age (60s). Only one other American couple, they were the subject of all our curiosity (we thought he was a European financier and she was his beautiful Asian girlfriend - turned out he was a retired TV producer and she was his beautiful Hawaiian wife.) I really wanted to take photos, everything was so beautiful, but felt it wouldn't be appreciated and would take away from the mood.
Anyway, it's such a wonderful place I wanted to share it with you.
Today was our big treat day - lunch at Lasserre - 17 Av. Franklin Roosevelt. Beautiful area. It was the most wonderful meal of our lives. Beautiful place - we had asked for a table under the retractable roof, which we got..the roof was open, it was a lovely day. Masses of orchids decorate the dining room. Service was unlike anything we've experienced, but even as formal as it is, we didn't feel anything but special. Amuses bouches were tiny, delicious jewels, so beautifully presented. Starters were a salad of heirloom tomatoes and watermelon ..all diced in tiny cubes the exact same size, and in molded into a circle. Served with two long crackers with crab something on top. So yum. Husband had beautiful salmon along with a oyster shell with diced oyster and a tarragon/shallot mayonnaise. I ordered roast chicken, never dreaming I'd get...a beautiful, perfectly cooked bird - boned and sliced "a table" with a sauce that was out of this world. There were herbs under the skin, etc. Came with potatoes, haricot verts and pearl onions with a taste of the same sauce. Kenny had langoustines fricassee that he adored. Then dessert, both of us a chocolate millefeuille served with a little ice cream on the side. Then, coffee, then a tray with two each of five little sweet bites. Besides the waiters in tails, busboys in white dinner jackets...everyone was lovely. Other diners were all French - some business execs, but mostly people our age (60s). Only one other American couple, they were the subject of all our curiosity (we thought he was a European financier and she was his beautiful Asian girlfriend - turned out he was a retired TV producer and she was his beautiful Hawaiian wife.) I really wanted to take photos, everything was so beautiful, but felt it wouldn't be appreciated and would take away from the mood.
Anyway, it's such a wonderful place I wanted to share it with you.
That sounds like quite a memorable dining experience, and it was so nice of you to share it in detail with us. Glad to hear that Paris agrees with you. Continue to eat, drink and be merry !!! ;D
hahahha