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longest meal of my life was in Provence couple weeks back
6 hours, we sat down at 7:30 and signed the check at 1:30am
yes had 6 bottle os wine for 4 of us but due to the long meal i didnt feel anything, we had the 9 course truffle menu, and some dishes were great other ok, i had fun and time wasnt an issue for me as i had enhanced my system before but the service was bad exp since this was a 2* michelin spot
the chef supposably runs through the woods in the am and finds wild herbs and finds new cheese producers etc
great dishes were: wild mint soup with a wild shroom girole plus shaved truffle, grilled veggies w/ wild mountain parley n truffle sauce that included sunfloer floers in all the stages, a baby zuchini stuffed with spicy truffled tomatoe sorbet....
Moulin de Lourmarin in Lourmarin
but you must click restaurant at the bottom to see the story!!
Had a decent meal last night at Jane (Houston St. - north side - and Thompson.) Very nice room. Entrees around $19, apps around $9. We had good fried clams (very good fry, maybe not enough clams,) O.K. crab cake, O.K. tomato and watermellon salad, and a great fennel and beet salad with some sort of sliced hard cheese. For entrees we had a good eggplant and truffle oil risotto, a nice sea bass with gnocchi, and two meat dishes that looked good (but I didn't taste.) Maybe that doesn't sound like a great review, but overall it felt very nice. Maybe it was the service which was excellent. That always helps. Nothing to absolutely die for, but no mistakes either.
On the wine side we drank a good 99 Lingenfelder Reiseling (Terry Theise selection) and the ever popular 98 "Les Terraces" Rioja ($43 - a little cheaper than I've seen it elsewhere.)
Good choice by itself, plus it's pretty handy if you can't get into Lupa (who can?) and don't want to walk very far for a decent alternative. It gets my vote.
ate again last night at Locanda Vini & Alii--it rocked and was far superior to my fist visit--salad's, soup, app's and pasta's were all we ate--all but one were right on--room had some wine industry rockers and good mix of local's--jim is right the 1997 Pico Vini is very good in an old school way, but the wine star is the 2000 Petite Arvine IMnotsoHO.....