Category French

Pumpernickel bread with smoked salmon at Cafe Champignon

Have you ever had pumpernickel bread?  I had not had pumpernickel bread until the day I had lunch with a friend and ordered a sandwich with smoked salmon on pumpernickel bread.  Since that day, I am an avid pumpernickel bread lover.  Why did I not try this bread all these years?  I assumed that this […]

Table Verte – the only French Vegetarian restaurant in NYC

This post is no longer valid.  This restaurant, sadly, closed as of Dec 2013.  RIP Table Verte….. ——————– French and vegetarian?  Yes, that is what Table Verte (Green Table??) is.  It’s a (relatively) new vegetarian restaurant in the East Village / Alphabet City area providing more vegetarian options to NYC.  Table Verte offers vegetarian, vegan, and […]

Jeanne and Gaston – a contemporary French restaurant

A week spent in Paris and the Loire Valley makes me no expert to talk about French food on this blog (and no, living in NYC with amazing French restaurants do not count, because I do not visit them often), but if the Association of Maitres Cuisinier de France invites a Chef to be Maitre […]