La Fourchette, Washington, D.C.

Several of us were in Columbia Heights this afternoon and some of the guys were hungry. We walked over to Adams-Morgan and decided to patronize La Fourchette for a quick French snack.

Kevin and I just had appetitzers. He ordered (after a couple of previous attempts that ended up being unavailable) the crab and spinach flan. It looked really good, and I didn't get a chance to query him much about it. The flan was presented on a rectangular plate on what looked like a mirror of nantua sauce, then lightly dusted with some finely minced parsley. The custard in the flan looked to have a good consistency.



I picked the artichoke vinaigrette. It was good, with the artichoke being a nice size, though I suspect from the texture that it had been made at least the day before. The accompanying dipping sauce was a piquant mustard-mayonnaise.



Michael was a bit more hungry, so he got an actual main course followed by a dessert. He reported his seafood crëpes to be quite good. They were enrobed in white sauce (bechamel? mornay?) and accompanied by a grilled tomato half topped with duxelles and a couple of little bundles of haricots verts wrapped in thin strips of carrot.



For his dessert, he got the oeufs à la neige, or "floating island," a pool of crème anglaise with meringue floating on top.



I always enjoy La Fourchette, and I think the other guys did, too. The only downside was that they charge for Coca-Cola refills, and Kevin had to send his iced tea back because they had brewed the tea with the coffee pot and it tasted of coffee.

Speaking of Coke, that's what Michael used for his Kody Pose. We shot over a half dozen poses, even using the red eye reduction feature on the camera, but we couldn't get him to leave his eyes open! This is the best we could do: