Have a French naughty Saint Valentin at L’Absinthe!
We provide French food and wine and you can bring your own naughtiness! We’ll look away, unless you like to be looked at…
L’Absinthe Restaurant-VALENTINE 2012 (pdf file, printer friendly)
NEW all the week around Menu at the Spirit: Croque Monsieur and hot breakfast every day!
Dear All
Finally our so far week-end menu will be available all the week around! So you can taste croque monsieur, french toast, baguette with eggs&bacon also on a gloomy Monday…
Et voila our “Let’s Croque” selection:
LET’S CROQUE
(served with salad and vinaigrette dressing)
CROQUE MONSIEUR (ham & gruyere cheese) £5.25
VEGGY CROQUE (gruyere cheese & tomatoes) £5.25
CROQUE MADAME (a Monsieur with an egg) £5.75
CROQUE MIMI (with goat cheese, gruyere, provencal herbs) £5.75
Croque Monsieur, Coffee & Fruit Salad £8.50
Croque Madame, Coffee & Fruit Salad £8.95
The Spirit of L’Absinthe-Cafe’Menu (pdf printer friendly menu)
L’Absinthe Restaurant-Menu a la carte January 2012
LE CASSOULET DE CHEF “CHRIS”
Hello, hello
this week special is, the soon to be world famous, cassoulet de chef “Chris”…
you see when you come from the south-west of France as does Chris, the first thing you learn
from your mother is…how to make “cassoulet”…so age 5 Chris was already making it…incroyable…
so after long and hard negociation, he agreed to cook it for our customers…
so voila for this week special
bon apetit
HAPPY BIRTHDAY…!!!!!!!
Hello hello
et oui…incroyable…the restaurant L’absinthe was 4 years old last sunday the 20th of november….
we haven’t properly celebrated yet but we had a little party the week before for Mimi “pot de depart” and
some of staff still looked rough by sunday anyway…c’est ca la jeunesse…
et voila
have a nice week end or bonne fin de semaine
a bientot
LA BLANQUETTE DE VEAU A L’ANCIENNE
Hello Hello
this week the special is Blanquette de veau a l’ancienne served with rice
we owe this one to Laurent, for now nearly 4 years is been banging on about this dishe that is mother
used to cook for him in Paris, so we got chef Chris to try to replicate it (with more or less success…you can beat mum’s cooking”)
et voila…
i can see some of you enjoying it with a nice bottle of Pouilly-Fuisse from domaine Jeandeau or our Bourgogne pinot noir from our
friend JM Pillot…un regale…
bon apetit…a bientot
ROAST RUMP OF LAMB, COCO BEANS, GARLIC JUS
Hello hello
faithful follower…if any…anyway i like reading my post
this week special is roast rump of lamb, beautiful meat supplied by Bob ze butcher (barrett’s in england’s lane)
juicy, tender, tasty meat served with coco beans in tomato sauce and garlic jus.
a “tour de force” from chef Chris
with this we could stay classic and go for bordeaux wines, but beacause of the flavour and the sweetness of the dish
i recommended one of my customer the St Joseph cuvee caroline from domaine Cheze 2007…incroyable…
he was so happy he nearly ask me to marry him but i could see the wife was not going to have it…so i say
“c’est la vie” …till next time, remenber there is nothing serious about eating it should only be enjoyment and pleasure
life is too short not to have fun….
JC IS BACK…BUT FOR HOW LONG…
Hello hello
i have decided to move into the 21st century and embrasse the internet
so i will keep you posted on a regular basic about us
et voila…who knows maybe one day i will even twit…don’t be silly…
a bientot
jc
October 2011: NEW MENU at L’Absinthe!
Summer is really gone… yesterday we were kissed by the Sun and today whipped by the Cold Wind…But it’s not all doom and gloom! At L’Absinthe we offer you some good reasons to love even the coldest of the weather: our winter menu, featuring Onion Soup, Chicken Liver Parfait, Crepes Suzette, Tarte Tatin… add few glasses of good wine and the cold is suddenly bearable…
You can have a look at the menu just below or you can have a look at and print the pdf file: Absinthe Menu-Autumn 2011 (pdf, black&white)
Back from holiday
Hello Hello Everybody!
Holidays have finally (……) got to the end and we are back in track, ready for new challenges! We don’t miss at all sunny seasides or blooming country sides or lazy days spent drinking and eating in front of beautiful panoramas…. no no no…. mah…. anyway, since we are all back to work (no one of us won the lottery) we may well do it nicely!
So stay tuned because out of our effort new exciting stuff is coming soon:
New Menu and Wine list ( et oui, le patron had to engage himself in some stressful wine tasting) at L’Absinthe Restaurant
New Room and Afteernoon Tea Menu ( et oui… we had to try lot of baked stuff) at the Spirit of L’Absinthe
Our offer for Christmas and New Years Eve (et oui… tasting again, such a pain…)
Fantastique!
the Spirit of L'Absinthe
