http://www.chuckeats.com/2007/03/19/lastrance-paris-second-chances-for-three-stars/ International adventures in cuisine Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:37:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.chuckeats.com/2007/03/19/lastrance-paris-second-chances-for-three-stars/comment-page-1/#comment-52482 tranber Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:06:27 +0000 http://chuckeats.com/blog3/2007/03/19/lastrance-paris-second-chances-for-three-stars/#comment-52482 Technical comment: Why people who write restaurant reports or reviews never think of including the restaurant's info? Your article includes no website address, no email address, no phone number... Where is l'Astrance? I found it on Google, of course, but I could have saved time if you had simply added the URL on your page. Technical comment: Why people who write restaurant reports or reviews never think of including the restaurant’s info? Your article includes no website address, no email address, no phone number… Where is l’Astrance? I found it on Google, of course, but I could have saved time if you had simply added the URL on your page.

]]> http://www.chuckeats.com/2007/03/19/lastrance-paris-second-chances-for-three-stars/comment-page-1/#comment-34471 chuckeats.com Blog » Rosanjin (NYC) - Undiscovered Gem? Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:04:12 +0000 http://chuckeats.com/blog3/2007/03/19/lastrance-paris-second-chances-for-three-stars/#comment-34471 [...] The next course, lightly roasted tomatoes with asparagus, was the lone question mark of the meal. It was an odd dish considering that kaiseki is purported to be an overly seasonally-based cuisine, sometimes to the day. Tomatoes are clearly not in season and they tasted as such. How did they find their way in the meal as a centerpiece of a dish? However, I’ve had a terribly unripe beet at L’Arpege (Paris) and a pineapple at L’Astrance (Paris) that Safeway would be embarassed to sell. I can let this one go. If the tomatoes were in season, the dish would have nicely referenced earlier themes (tomato, asparagus, tofu, mushrooms) and provide an interesting arc for the meal. [...] [...] The next course, lightly roasted tomatoes with asparagus, was the lone question mark of the meal. It was an odd dish considering that kaiseki is purported to be an overly seasonally-based cuisine, sometimes to the day. Tomatoes are clearly not in season and they tasted as such. How did they find their way in the meal as a centerpiece of a dish? However, I’ve had a terribly unripe beet at L’Arpege (Paris) and a pineapple at L’Astrance (Paris) that Safeway would be embarassed to sell. I can let this one go. If the tomatoes were in season, the dish would have nicely referenced earlier themes (tomato, asparagus, tofu, mushrooms) and provide an interesting arc for the meal. [...]

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