It's Laurent's birthday!
About a dozen of us got together tonight to celebrate with a little dinner at Bistrot du Coin up on Dupont Circle. We'd reserved a table up on the mezzanine level to avoid the noise and congestion on the main dining room floor, and yet we still had plenty of noise and a very festive atmosphere upstairs. Having a party at a busy restaurant on a Friday night is always a challenge, and since they were so busy, they really packed the chairs around as few tables as possible, even with two chairs on each end of the long table.
It was after ten when we left the restaurant. I came on home, but the kids all headed out to the bars for drinks and dancing.....to J.R.'s, I think, at least to start.
It was impossible to keep track of who all ate what, but here are a few food pics from the evening.
Les Plats Principeaux
Les Patisseries
Here's what you're looking at. In the appetizer category, there's French onion soup, salade d'artichaut et asperges (artichoke heart and asparagus salad), salade de chèvre chaud (salad with hot chèvre goat cheese), salade frisée aux lardons (frisée lettuce salad with a fried egg and crumbled bacon), and a salade de magret et gésiers de canard fumé (smoked duck salad). In the main course category, there's le steak maison (house steak with fries and bearnaise sauce), moules Normandes (mussels Normandy prepared with white wine, cream, leeks, celery, mushrooms, potatoes, and bacon, served with fries—this is what I had, and yes, they were delicious!), ravioles du Royan (mushroom and herb ravioli) and a seafood ravioli du jour, poulet rôti au four (roast chicken), and steak tartare (raw chopped beefsteak). Desserts included La Tropezienne (custard-filled brioche), chocolat liegois (sort of a chocolate ice cream sundae with caramel and chocolate sauces), fondant au chocolat (a baked bittersweet chocolate fondant cake with whipped cream), and a clafoutis aux poires (pear clafoutis).
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