My nephew's college friend Brian is visiting this week and he wanted to go shopping at non-mall type stores, so we went to look at the little boutiques around Dupont Circle. After looking for a while, we were a little hungry, so we stopped in to
Bistrot du Coin to get some dessert and a touch of wine. While we drank a
pot Lyonaisse (a/k/a small pitcher) of some 2003 Alsace Edelzwicker, Brian had the
fondant au chocolat semi amer, a tasty looking bittersweet chocolate fondant baked in a tiny round cake topped with
crème chantilly and a mint sprig and sauced with chocolate and custard.
I had the
La Tropezienne, a big round brioche split and filled with a stiff custard, surrounded by orange blossom-scented custard sauce and garnished with sliced almonds and powdered sugar.
Brian was quite fascinated with the traditional small-bowled, green-stemmed Alsacian wine glasses with a matching pitcher that the bistro used for serving the wine.
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