Thursday, May 23, 2013

Eating Épernay: La Cave à Champagne

** Warning, the following blog post may contain images and descriptions of  extreme gastronomic hyperbole that sensitive readers may find offensive.  Reader discretion is advised. **

Holy fucking shit-snacks was that good.

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Oysters tasting strongly of the Jersey shore bringing back memories of my childhood.  Both in a good way.

 

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The best foie gras ever.  It was like drinking unicorn tears off an angel’s taint.

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The leader in the clubhouse for tastiest dish of Walkabout 2013.  Coquille St. Jacques in a cream sauce the makes all other cream sauces retire in shame.

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Perfectly cooked duck, the best potato gratin ever and a nice and interesting celery root purée.

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A very nice cod, lentils and the same celery root purée.

 

And now an assortment of our everyone’s desserts.

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Very much out of character for me, I went with the Crème brûlée.

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It was very good.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

That foie gras almost looks lean.

jtingermany said...

I would eat my own head in that cream sauce.

Unknown said...

Beautiful pics. Awesome descriptions.

Unknown said...

unknown = michelle. ;)

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