New Year’s eve at Manhattan…there’s the Time Square craziness that we avoided like plague, and most restaurants had a prix-fixe menu. While walking in Nolita earlier in the day, we saw this lovely and intimate French restaurant (with Asian flair) and liked the $85 3 course menu very much. We walked in while they were in preparation and asked for reservation. Turns out there is one open table left at the night. Lucky!
The owner’s cute little French bulldog, I found out later that he’s the mascot for the restaurant~ 😀 Noted the pears on every table, it’d the key ingredient for the entire course.
Appertizers: Watercress Pear G Gorgonzola Salad and choice of Kumamoto Oysters or…
Chanterelles Mushroom in Reduced Creme Sauce. The seseme bread taste like Chinese steamed-wheat bread, even the serving plate is those blue frame China. Very good.
Main Course: Deer with hukleberry preserves. So good~ The sides are amazing too, esp. the sweet potato gratin with black truffle!
Quail with Foie Gras, there’re pears underneath the quail. Very good! The dessert is Poached Pear in Red Wine with Chocolate Mousse, so heavenly!
It has a sake bar called Chibi’s Bar right next door, with the little bulldog as logo. The owner came by and chat with us. She told us the night was also her lovely restaurant’s 15th Anniversary! Double celebration~
Tags: Foie Gras, French, Oyster, Prix fixe
The hummus + soup + tea set or Shakshuka + hummus + tea set are $8.95 each…so fair, so warm, so good~ There are so many interesting little places like this all over East side, I can’t wait to try them all. Too bad Joan went back to LA yesterday.
