Editor Pick
Cafe Gourmand
- November 13, 2000
- Rated 1 of 5 by
food&fun from Truckee, California
This elegantly decorated bistro is located in the shopping district. The classy locale, plus a good recommendation from the Gault-Millau guide led us to have dinner here. Mistake. My husband and I both selected the fixed price menu. I started with a plate of 9 oysters on the half shell, garnished with a sausage which I would call a Slim Jim pepperoni if I had seen it in the U.S. The oysters were fresh and tasty, but I didn't understand what relationship the sausage had to them. My husband started with a squid and red pepper salad, which was good for what it was, but not distinctive. For the main course, my husband had pork in a 'sweet and sour' sauce, which turned out to be just as the menu promised -- perhaps catsup, sugar and vinegar -- and nothing special. My main dish was supposed to be grilled duck, but I never quite figured out what PART of the duck they grilled. It was a huge chunk of fat and some bones. Closest I could figure, they took a cross section just above the tail! And I wasn't the only one who was mystified; a native French-speaker seated near us ordered the same thing and quizzed the waiter at length about her dish. He went into the kitchen and returned with an explanation. She finished eating her food, but did not look happy about it. My dessert was their 'special' version of tiramisu: sponge cake with cream topping. My husband had orange 'salad,' in reality a fruit cup. The positive spin on the dinner is that it has provided us with many laughs since then. Roast duck butt anyone?
From journal Exploring Bordeaux