Restaurants I have known and loved!!

[DuncaninFrance]

http://www.latupina.com/tupina_en/index.html

Check this link out. La Tupina, in Bordeaux, where we had lunch yesterday - what a fantastic place.

£21 / $42 / 32€

1st. Country Paté with Fois Gras, toast and salted butter.

2nd Lamb cooked in it's own juices served with beans and chips cooked in duck fat

Chocolate flan served with a light custard.

Coffee

The meal served with 3 glasses of 2003 Côte de Bourge, Gold medal in the 2006 wine challenge.

BOY was I full!!

[Niner Delta]

Sounds wonderful, but not for me, I don't care for lamb.

My question is, what kind of chips were they?

"Chips" seems to vary by country as to how the potatoes are cooked.

Vern.

[Niner]

French haute cousine consists of a list of "food" that seems at best secondary in nature to what people really think of as food. Consider..... goose livers, truffles which are a kind of fungus. Rooster hearts, snails. But what do I know as I suck on a Miller lite and eat a corn dog with mustard? Probably stuff worst than goose livers and rooster hearts in this corn dog. Not to mention the fungus.

[Niner Delta]

I agree with you about the food, it has always been my habit to not eat organs. No heart, liver, tongue, brains, kidneys, tripe, eyeballs, assholes, or any sex organs. Guess I'm just funny that way.

Read most of the menu for that restaurant, and was surprised that a sirloin steak, considered a fairly poor cut in this country, was priced at $68 US.

However, the Black pig loin sounds like heaven to me. We will go there for dinner, Duncan, the next time I am in France.

Vern.