A LA CARTE : BASTILLE DAY.Byline: Larry Lipson Once again, it's that time of year to storm local French restaurants that might be busy celebrating Bastille Day. It falls this year on Monday, normally a slow - or closed - restaurant day. So most places either put on the dog, or forget the celebration altogether. Here are a few restaurants that will definitely be doing something worth consideration: Bistro 45 Address: 45 S. Mentor Ave., Pasadena. Phone: (818) 795-2478. Menu: Family-style prix-fixe dinner. One seating at 6 p.m. Chilled soup at arrival. Platters of food delivered to tables include salads, leg of lamb with flageolets, grilled sausages, chicken provencal, quiches, grilled vegetables, pommes frites. Dessert buffet. Price: $35 (includes all wines and beers, food, tax and tip). Miscellaneous: Festive decorations. Live jazz band. Casual attire welcome. Cafe St. Michel Address: 11929 Ventura Blvd., Studio City. Phone: (818) 761-9800. Menu: Three-course, prix-fixe dinner. Appetizers, entrees and desserts from regular menu or from list of specials du jour. Price: $19.95. Miscellaneous: Balloons. French recorded music. La Cachette Address: 10506 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles
Phone: (310) 470-4992. Menu: Four-course prix-fixe dinner begins with chestnut and morel morel Any of various species of edible mushrooms in the genera Morchella and Verpa. Morels have a convoluted or pitted head, or cap, vary in shape, and occur in diverse habitats. The edible M. mushroom soup followed by a lobster salad with a white truffle truffle (trŭf`əl) [Fr.], subterranean edible fungus that forms a mutually beneficial (symbiotic) relationship with the roots of certain trees and plants. The part of the fungus used as food is the ascoma, the fruiting body of the fungus. vinaigrette and tricolor tricolor describes a coat color of dogs and cats which has orange and black patches (similar to the tortoiseshell) but has in addition patches of white hair; see tortoiseshell. flag vegetables. Entree is a choice of filet of beef with Roquefort cheese and black peppercorn pep·per·corn n. 1. A dried berry of the pepper vine Piper nigrum. 2. A small or insignificant thing. peppercorn Noun the small dried berry of the pepper plant sauce, wild mushroom-stuffed chicken breast or tournedo of salmon with a cabernet and shallot sauce boosted with chervil chervil (chûr`vəl), name for two similar edible Old World herbs of the family Umbelliferae (parsley family). The salad chervil is Anthriscus cerefolium. Its leaves, like those of the related dill and parsley, are used for seasoning. and tarragon tarragon (târ`əgŏn), perennial aromatic Old World herb (Artemisia dracunculus) of the family Asteraceae (aster family), of the same genus as wormwood and sagebrush. . Dessert is La Bastille Bastille (băstēl`) [O.Fr.,=fortress], fortress and state prison in Paris, located, until its demolition (started in 1789), near the site of the present Place de la Bastille. It was begun c. hazelnut and vanilla ice cream tower with a mixed berry sauce. Price: $58. Miscellaneous: Festive decorations. Waiters and waitresses in costume. Accordionist. Le Petit Bistro Address: 13360 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks; 631 N. La Cienega Blvd., West Hollywood. Phone: Sherman Oaks: (818) 501-7999; West Hollywood: (310) 289-9797. Menu: Regular menu with complimentary appetizer dips plus Bastille dinner specials of filet mignon with cracked pepper, seedless Seed´less a. 1. Without seed or seeds. Adj. 1. seedless - lacking seeds; "seedless grapefruit" seedy - full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig" seedless adj → grapes and a port wine sauce and a grilled swordfish plate. Price: Specials are $14.95 each. Miscellaneous: 500 balloons. Pinot at the Chronicle Address: 897 Granite Drive, Pasadena. Phone: (818) 792-1179. Menu: Three-course prix-fixe dinner with choice of five appetizers, four entrees and six desserts. Price: $35. Pinot Bistro Address: 12969 Ventura Blvd., Studio City. Phone: (818) 990-0500. Menu: Three-course prix-fixe dinner with a choice of five appetizers, five entrees and three desserts. Price: $35. Pinot Hollywood Address: 1448 N. Gower St., Hollywood. Phone: (818) (213) 461-8800. Menu: Four-course prix-fixe dinner with a choice of four appetizers, two soups, four entrees and four desserts. Price: $35. Wine Bistro Address: 11915 Ventura Blvd., Studio City.. Phone: (818) 766-6233. Menu: Three-course prix-fixe dinner with champagne. Appetizer, entree and dessert options from regular menu or list of specials du jour. Price: $30.95. Miscellaneous: Balloons. Tableside ta·ble·side n. The area beside or around a table, especially in a restaurant. adv. & adj. Made or prepared alongside a table: lamb that was carved tableside; a tableside recitation of the menu. magic of Scott Lazar. |
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