So tonight my parents were invited by the most amazing friends (sorry people in France these guys were pretty awesome tonight, I still love you preeeeetty much) to the Bauer Kitchen in Waterloo. We already knew the restaurant was amazing, food is great, as much as the service, but tonight was the night.
I had already been there and tried their gnocchi with their chianti Sangiovese (I don't know why it's not on the online menu anymore but it was a great combination). This was a really good dinner. The second time was a work dinner and I just went with pasta and water (not the best for sure, but that was a different setting... and I was training for my half-marathon too)
But tonight, tonight...
So we get in the restaurant, and the waitress sends us to a huge wooden table with 8 red seats. We have a huge, huge table, and I felt like we would have to scream so that we would be able to hear each other. We all sit down, get settled and two things happen, almost simultaneously. First, P sees the flyers "Oy Oy Oysters, from 5pm to 8pm only! Get your Oysters". "It's 7:53, where is the server..." Yeap they did get them but no I did not try Oysters...(my education in terms of seafood, prevented me from doing so... unless I can see the sea I'm not eating seafood...). But that's not the only thing that happened tonight.
Secondly, our waiter, realized we all spoke french and started speaking in french "un petit peu" but he did an amazing job... The tone was set, we were all happy and food already sounded delicious.
Ordering :
I don't remember everyone's order but I'll just describe mine and let you know how fantastidiously good it was (yes, a combination of fantastically ridiculously good). I ordered the :
DUCK CONFIT : crispy duck legs, roasted mini potatoes, squash & parsnips, dark chicken jus and plum orange compote
This just sounded amazing, canard doré et craquant au confit d'orange accompagné de ses minis pommes de terre rôties, panais... jus ce cuisson et compotée d'orange et de prune.
Yeah, how do you feel about that????
Of course, such a meal cannot but come with a good wine (red of course). My nose is sniffing the wine list up and down searching for a perfect worded match and the MacMannus Petite Shiraz (USA california) just caught my attention (Yeah I know the actual caption did... but they mentioned Tim Burton and when mentioning Tim Burton if it's not good it's screwed...) So I settled with this Californian wine and I must say, when my food arrived, everything just combined perfectly.
The duck was roasted and crispy on the outside as perfectly as it could be... The veggies cooked or braised --it would be more appropriate-- had this perfect relation with the meat and the wine just enhanced all the qualities of this meal. A taste of old France right there, on my palate, I couldn't believe it. The sauce, the potatoes, the meat and the wine. A combination of flavors each adding what the other just needed to make it whole (holy????).
So we discussed before and after... Food was so good that you could hear the silence right at the first "bouchées". No, we did talk after the discoveries. I did "savouré" my meal and my wine, but the conversation was going on. We talked about wine, food, school. Life in general, marriage, and P and T had an idea : to tell the waiter to celebrate my parents anniversary!!!! They offered us CHAMPAGNE... So we enjoyed our "coupe" de champagne and all got some more amazing food : dessert = crême brûlée--for some--, fruit bowls, cheesecake. I broke my crême brûlée with the tip of my spoon and I did feel like I was reliving a scene from Amélie.... *sigh*
We talked more, and shared one of the most amazing moments here in waterloo again!!!!! Thanks wonderful friends, you rock!!!
Our waiter was asked by S where he learnt french and of course at UW with T.S and KLF (entre autres). It couldn't be someone else, because after all these years, he was still able to speak it!!!!
PS : go to the Bauer Kitchen it's just the best for real food.
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Coleeeeeeny out ========>
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