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Le Dôme

My favorite place for spectacular shellfish, soupe de poissons, salade de homard as well as sole meunière. Le Dôme has a distinctive Parisian look and feel to it, and a...

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Carré des Feuillants

Alain Dutournier is one of the world's greatest chefs, and why this restaurant has not gotten three stars from Guide Michelin remains one of the world's culinary mysteries. Dutournier is...

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Restaurant Les Cédres

An excellent restaurant that I had not visited for more than a decade, Les Cédres is located about 15 minutes outside of Tain l'Hermitage. It is run with great enthusiasm...

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Le Grand Pré

This modern, tiny restaurant is just outside of Vaison-La-Romaine and adjacent to the hillside Côtes du Rhône village of Roaix. Since I had had a good-sized lunch, I ate very...

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La Mère Germaine

This casual Provençal restaurant/bistro changed ownership a few years ago, and it is now a mecca for thirsty and hungary southern Rhône wine enthusiasts. One of the most dramatic changes...

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L'Ami Louis (second dinner)

This was another fabulous evening at L'Ami Louis with pretty much the same menu, although at this meal we substituted the hot confit for their cold confit of duck served...

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L'Ami Louis (first dinner)

L'Ami Louis may be my favorite restaurant ... in the world. Although September is not the best time to dine there since the fresh scallops do not come in until...

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Oregon Grille

My local restaurant was the venue for a meeting of some of my wife's best friends, and a "magnum force" tasting of wines given the fact there were ten of...

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Dinner - La Beaugravière

After a previous lunch at Beaugravière, I looked forward to a return visit for dinner during my long sojourn in the Rhône Valley. There were so many things on the...

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