A Cuisine Qustion

[Bearofdistinction]

Duck is a somewhat regular dish for me at home, say 4-5 times a year. Sometime pekin sometimes Muscovy. Plain roasted my favorite, usually with a citrus/pineapple brine. Sometimes orange sauce, and sometimes slow smoked.....that’s good!

 

Roasted Crisp with Seasoned Skin and served with Dark Bing Cherry Sauce for Dipping

[gallahadesquire]

I'd be interested in the execution of the menu....classics, and tired favorites can be executed to be delicious......while du jour can be drab. How was the actual execution and flavor?

Execution : perfect

Flavor: unbelievable

[nynakedtop]

Renowned French chef Andre Surmain dies at 97

After running what was long considered one of New York City’s top French restaurants at Lutèce, Andre Surmain has died. The 97-year-old French chef was a bastion of old-guard fine dining, with his restaurant debuting in 1961 with dinner costing $435, in today’s dollars. Though Lutèce closed in 2004 — Surmain left in the early 1970s — Surmain left his mark on the NYC dining world with his disregard for diners’ opinions, strict commitment to traditional French food, and likening for luxury.

[Deadlift1]

What is a QUSTION?

[+ Charlie]

I occasionally joined a friend at Lutece for special occasions, because he loved it, but I never thought it was worth the price.

[LookingAround]

There’s a reason all those places closed.

[BSR]

I occasionally joined a friend at Lutece for special occasions, because he loved it, but I never thought it was worth the price.

I've never been to Lutuce in NYC, just the Las Vegas version a couple of times. Once was the "discount" pre-theater prix fixe menu. I forgot the price, but I actually thought it was a helluva bargain given the quality of the food and service. The other time was the regular six-course tasting menu. Yup, it's pricey, but for a special occasion (it was my mother's 75th birthday), I thought it was a fair value. I don't remember what I paid but do remember that the food was exquisite. I should mention that I never order alcohol when fine dining. The tab is going to be expensive to begin with. Adding profit-margin-pumping bottles of wine to the bill is just too extravagant for my budget.

[Rudynate]

There’s a reason all those places closed.

 

Tastes changed.

[+ azdr0710]

once read that if, at these fairly expensive, popular "prime steakhouses", one only orders the steak and water to drink, the restaurant will lose money.....no secret, I guess, that the big profit is in the sides, drinks, and dessert

 

that's it from me!....not a foodie here!

[jjkrkwood]

Seeing the prices on the menu at those pish-posh restaurants always made me lose my appetite, so I would never enjoy the meal... A sack of White Castle hamburgers gave me a bigger orgasm....

[+ azdr0710]

Seeing the prices on the menu at those pish-posh restaurants always made me lose my appetite, so I would never enjoy the meal... A sack of White Castle hamburgers gave me a bigger orgasm....

 

history nerd that I am..........

 

[jjkrkwood]

history nerd that I am..........

 

 

My lover once asked where I wanted to go for my birthday dinner..... I chose White Castle..... Best B-day dinner ever. Those minced onions and mushy little buns drive me wild !

[craigville beach]

My lover once asked where I wanted to go for my birthday dinner..... I chose White Castle..... Best B-day dinner ever. Those minced onions and mushy little buns drive me wild !

 

where the "mushy little buns" on the burger or the lover?

[jjkrkwood]

where the "mushy little buns" on the burger or the lover?

 

the BURGER dear. He was a runner and had a big butt....

[+ poolboy48220]

My Dad often gets shorted on his birthday dinner since it's so close to Thanksgiving. I offered to make whatever he wanted on his actual birthday one year, and he wanted hot dogs ("snorkers" was the term he used). I dressed them up - I grilled sauerkraut, brought along five or six types of mustard, etc - but that's what he wanted.

[Rudynate]

My Dad often gets shorted on his birthday dinner since it's so close to Thanksgiving. I offered to make whatever he wanted on his actual birthday one year, and he wanted hot dogs ("snorkers" was the term he used). I dressed them up - I grilled sauerkraut, brought along five or six types of mustard, etc - but that's what he wanted.

 

When I was a kid, my mother got our meat at an old-style meat market where they made all of their own sausage. The hot dogs she got from there were a type of sausage called "steamers." When she first started buying them, we didn't like them because we were used to grocery-store hot dogs. Eventually we got so we hated grocery store hot dogs. They actually became fashionable in the 80's. It was considered a cool thing to go to Zimmerman's meat market for a steamer.

[bigvalboy]