The shabbat dinner at Le Dome or....No blessings over the langostines.
After coming home from Versailles there is again the most incredible rainstorm out our apartment windows. It rains for about an hour and lets up just as we venture out to dinner.
We take two metros to Vavin, changing at Odeon. Le Dome is across the street.
We have a table in a non smoking area, really great. It is a booth in a little alcove of sorts and feels very private.
Marc translates the menu for all of us and there were decisions to be made. A few things were "not available.."
1st: we all share two orders of carpacio thon (raw tuna) with caviar l'aubergine. This is incredible. We all love it, even Sarah (except she didn't taste the tuna part). It came with crusty toasted bread and is so yummy.
Main courses:
D: Saint Pierre with potatoes/tomatoes
M: Rouget (of course!)
S and E: Langostines with pasta with frest tomato sauce
All were polished off, but we have enough room for dessert:
D and M: glace: noix de coco and chocolat noir
E: sorbet: fruites de passion and fraise de bois (hostile act??)
S: Chocolate mousse avec orange (also a bit hostile)
Few funny things:
After a few sips of wine (a simple house Pinot) Marc noticed something in his glass. Moving. He beckoned the waiter: "Monsieur" and in french, unsure of the french word for "bug" says, "there's something in my glass, and it's swimming....." He is promptly brought a new glass of wine.
After the food was served, we were all eating and I think the waiter noticed that Sarah wasn't eating the langostoine part of her dish...just the pasta. And we were all too absorbed in our dishes to really notice this. The waiter did notice and came over and cut Sarah's langostine for her! He showed her how to remove the meat from the attached tail and then cut it for her! Wow, what service!
When the waiter came by to give us rolls, he picked up the rolls from a basket with tongs and carefully put each roll on our bread plates. When he came to Emily, Emily, being helpful, reached out to grab it..."No, Mlle." and motioned toward her bread plate and she passed it toward him! They are learning.
2.5 hours later we took 2 metros home to Cluny and walked back. Home by 11:30. The night is beautiful and the crowds are out in force in this neighborhood outside our windows.
more tomorrow.
After coming home from Versailles there is again the most incredible rainstorm out our apartment windows. It rains for about an hour and lets up just as we venture out to dinner.
We take two metros to Vavin, changing at Odeon. Le Dome is across the street.
We have a table in a non smoking area, really great. It is a booth in a little alcove of sorts and feels very private.
Marc translates the menu for all of us and there were decisions to be made. A few things were "not available.."
1st: we all share two orders of carpacio thon (raw tuna) with caviar l'aubergine. This is incredible. We all love it, even Sarah (except she didn't taste the tuna part). It came with crusty toasted bread and is so yummy.
Main courses:
D: Saint Pierre with potatoes/tomatoes
M: Rouget (of course!)
S and E: Langostines with pasta with frest tomato sauce
All were polished off, but we have enough room for dessert:
D and M: glace: noix de coco and chocolat noir
E: sorbet: fruites de passion and fraise de bois (hostile act??)
S: Chocolate mousse avec orange (also a bit hostile)
Few funny things:
After a few sips of wine (a simple house Pinot) Marc noticed something in his glass. Moving. He beckoned the waiter: "Monsieur" and in french, unsure of the french word for "bug" says, "there's something in my glass, and it's swimming....." He is promptly brought a new glass of wine.
After the food was served, we were all eating and I think the waiter noticed that Sarah wasn't eating the langostoine part of her dish...just the pasta. And we were all too absorbed in our dishes to really notice this. The waiter did notice and came over and cut Sarah's langostine for her! He showed her how to remove the meat from the attached tail and then cut it for her! Wow, what service!
When the waiter came by to give us rolls, he picked up the rolls from a basket with tongs and carefully put each roll on our bread plates. When he came to Emily, Emily, being helpful, reached out to grab it..."No, Mlle." and motioned toward her bread plate and she passed it toward him! They are learning.
2.5 hours later we took 2 metros home to Cluny and walked back. Home by 11:30. The night is beautiful and the crowds are out in force in this neighborhood outside our windows.
more tomorrow.
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