Saturday, May 23, 2009

It's always about the food...






Sunday, May 24, 2009
Early (8:10 a.m.) Edition!

Bonjour!

Wanted to post our dinner adventure last night, so here we go! Our hotel restaurant being fully booked (and me having promised R a good dinner the night before so we could have pizza…) we asked at the desk for a recommendation. One of the places they mentioned was Edgar’s, a brasserie next to the Hotel Mercure at the port where we’d been for our cruise. So…over we went.

Lovely, HUGE place – black and white tile floors, lots of windows; typical brasserie style; just lovely! We started off with glasses de champagne; celebrating a terrific day! Those came with a small plate of goodies, including some wonderful shrimp and pesto. Then to order…R started with a plate of moules frites – which turned out to be mussels steamed in a traditional buttery broth, with a cupful of AMAZING French fries! YUM!! I had a salad de chevre (goat cheese) orientale – this was a large portion of goat cheese mixed with pimento, peppers and curry powder, wrapped in phyllo puff pastry and topped with sliced almonds! Amazing!! For mains, R had the sole meuniere (fillets of sole in a light butter sauce) and I had homard Breton – which turned out to be chunks of lobster in a sort-of stew, with peppers and carrots, all topped by a puff pastry shell. Wow! Talk about wonderful food! We actually also ordered dessert (although we both could have done without) – R a plate of red fruits – strawberries, raspberries (even some blueberries!) with a HUGE dollop of wonderful whipped cream (which he skipped)! I had mousse au chocolat which was SO rich that I was only able to manage a small portion! A wonderful ending to an incredible day! Oh! Two half-bottles of a wonderful Chablis – excellent! But, it wasn’t the end of the day … exactly!

Got back to the hotel safely (only a mile or so distant) and settled in – in fact, both of us were asleep, when at 11:30 p.m. – FIREWORKS started going off, on the bay directly in front of our room! They went on for over 10 minutes – quite an amazing show for all! So – an even lovelier way to end the day!

Off for Dinan shortly! More later!
Much love,
m

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