Tag Archives: amuse-bouches

Dish du jour — 23-02-2020

Posted on February 24, 2020 by loren24250

Since today is my birthday, Jan and I had hoped to be having a special lunch at O Moulin, the wonderful restaurant in Carsac, a drive of 30 minutes or less from Daglan. Unfortunately, starting today the restaurant is closed … Continue reading →

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An oh-so-leisurely Sunday lunch

Posted on November 7, 2015 by loren24250

A leisurely Sunday lunch with good friends, enjoying fine food, is both a treat and a tradition for us here in the Greater Daglan Area. However, I do make a distinction between plain-old leisurely and so-much-time-between-courses-that-you-could-learn-how-to-play-contract-bridge leisurely. Unfortunately, the latter … Continue reading →

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The World’s Best Restaurant — the starters

Posted on October 4, 2015 by loren24250

This continues a mini-series of postings on our recent trip from Daglan,  for a vacation in Barcelona and the Costa Brava area of northeast Spain. In my last posting, I provided an introduction and overview comments on our September 23rd … Continue reading →

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And how was lunch? Simply delumptious!

Posted on June 26, 2015 by loren24250

You may not think that delumptious is actually a word, but my wife Jan uses it when we have something that’s truly delicious and scrumptious, and so it must be correct. Certainly delumptious is an excellent way to describe the … Continue reading →

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Amazed, surprised and delighted — once again

Posted on May 23, 2015 by loren24250

We have eaten at the Michelin-starred Le Grand Bleu in Sarlat so many times that it may seem surprising that we can still be amazed, surprised and delighted by Chef Maxime Lebrun’s creations. But we are, and never more so … Continue reading →

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Back in action — with a superb tasting menu

Posted on June 5, 2014 by loren24250

Just the day before I was discharged (honourably) from La Roseraie, the clinic where I had been undergoing physiotherapy after back surgery, I received an email from a former colleague in Toronto, raving about her recent trip to Paris. In … Continue reading →

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Perfectly reasonable, reasonably perfect

Posted on October 25, 2012 by loren24250

Yesterday morning my wife Jan and I were headed to Brive-la-Gaillard, about 85 kilometres north and east of Daglan, to do some shopping. Before we left home, we had decided that by lunchtime we would be ready to try L’Imaginaire, … Continue reading →

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