Sunday supper at Marche simply super.Byline: The Register-Guard It's the end of a long weekend spent entertaining out-of-town guests. Your parents, your in-laws, your who- ever. You've visited the wineries, hit Saturday Market, maybe caught a performance at the Hult Center. Now it's Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. ; they leave in the morning. You want to see them off with appropriate pomp POMP n. A drug used in cancer chemotherapy and composed of purinethol (6-mercaptopurine), Oncovin (vincristine sulfate), methotrexate, and prednisone. , but frankly, you're weary of them. You're counting down the hours until you and your honey can collapse on the couch On the Couch is an Australian television program formally broadcast on the Fox Footy Channel and it focuses on the current issues in the AFL. This is now broadcast on Fox Sports after the closure of Fox Footy Channel. The show airs on Monday night and is hosted by Gerard Healy. and watch all the shows you've TiVo'd over the past 72 hours. But before you can drown in a sea of mind-numbing, amnesia-inducing cable television, you must arrange the "good-bye, thanks for coming, see you in six months" farewell dinner. Where to go? Team Best of ... recommends sundaysupper at Eugene's Marche Restaurant. It's a surefire hit that will delight even the pickiest foodie - and help preserve your sanity. Each week, chef Jon Henry focuses his impressive culinary skill on this family-style dinner. Henry's creative, delicious and seasonal menu uses the same organic, chemical-free ingredients from local farmers and ranchers that Marche owner Stephanie Pearl Kimmel is known for. A recent dinner began with white bean soup with mussels, moved on to linguine with lamb sugo, broccoli raab broccoli raab or broccoli rabe n. A vegetable plant (Brassica rapa) related to the turnip and grown for its pungent leafy shoots. Also called rapini. and parmesan, and finished with a mesclun mes·clun n. A mixture of young leafy greens, often including young lettuces, used as salad. [Provençal mesclom, mesclumo, mixture, from Vulgar Latin green salad with Meyer lemon The Meyer lemon (Citrus × meyeri) is a citrus fruit, native to China, thought to be a cross between a true lemon and a mandarin orange or sweet orange. The Meyer lemon was introduced to the United States in 1908 as S.P.I. vinaigrette. For dessert, there was a sinful creation from pastry chef A pastry chef or pâtissier is a station chef in a professional kitchen, skilled in the making of pastries, desserts, and other baked goods. They are employed in large hotels, bistros, restaurants, and bakeries. Tobi Sovak. "Sounds fabulous," you say. "But how will this preserve my sanity?" The meal is served family-style, meaning everyone who signs up for sundaysupper sits together at one big table in the middle of the restaurant. Talking among the diners Diners can mean:
Team Best of ... found the seating arrangement a bit awkward at first. But soon, the atmosphere warms and people begin chatting and getting to know one another as the courses appear one by one and are passed around the table. Now, here's how this benefits you, the obliging o·blig·ing adj. Ready to do favors for others; accommodating. o·blig  ing·ly adv. but fatigued
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At this dinner, your visitors inevitably will be drawn into conversation with the other diners, for whom you will develop a sincere, if temporary, love. These other diners will take up the mantel of conversing with your guests, freeing you of the burden of entertaining their inquiries about your career goals, your plans for children or your weight. You can enjoy that linguine with lamb sugo in relative peace and serenity. And you can sip the French table wine ($12.50 per carafe) without anyone making a snide remark about maybe you've had too much to drink. And because everyone eats the same thing, there will be no tiring debate about what to order, and no passing "tastes" of your meal to others on a bread plate. Try it. Not only will you enjoy an artful art·ful adj. 1. Exhibiting art or skill: "The furniture is an artful blend of antiques and reproductions" Michael W. Robbins. 2. meal, but you may sound somewhat sincere the next morning when you see your guests off with a, "We've had such a great time - come again soon." For a real treat, check out the Best of ... archive at www .registerguard.com/bestof. Gratuities accepted. BEST PLACE TO FEED THE IN-LAWS sundaysupper Where: Marche Restaurant, 296 E. Fifth Ave. Price: $25 per person (beverages not included) When: 7 p.m. every Sunday Reservations: 342-3612, Ext. 2 |
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