La Creperie, Arlington VA

Had another lovely dinner tonight with Oklahoma friend Kody, who met me at the train station this evening when I got back in to D.C. from Baltimore. We metroed down to Pentagon City to do some wine shopping at World Market and then grab some dinner. We wandered and wandered around Pentagon Row looking for that little Vietnamese restaurant and couldn't find it, so we decided to pop in to La Creperie. La Creperie is, of course, French!

We started with glasses of Merlot Michel Picard while we purused the menu. Dinner began with us splitting an order of pâté et cornichons, which was a pleasant country-style pate spiked with pistachios and accompanied by several cornichon pickles and little cocktail onions with a basket of a sliced baguette.

For our plats, Kody had a crêpe Parisienne, which was a great big crepe filled with spinach and brie cheese with a basil sauce drizzled across the crepe, which he said he liked. I had the crêpe au Merguez, a crepe stuffed with bits of spicy French sausage. onions, and green peppers with a bit of cheese and a tomato sauce. I liked the sausage, but I would have liked it to be a little hotter and spicier; the French in France, however, do not.

For dessert we split a crêpe Suzette, the classic Grand Marnier-flavored dessert, this time served with a little scoop of vanilla ice cream. Kody drank a Siema Pinot Grigio and I had an Henri Marchant champagne. The picture below is of Kody with his pinot grigio and what's left of the devastated crêpe Suzette.