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Cafe Presse

Celebrate Autumn in Alsace

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Cafe Presse and Le Pichet are proud to invite you to a special dinner Le Pichet and Café Presse executive chef Jim Drohman recently spent a week visiting family, tasting wine and touring the countryside of this storybook beautiful region. Come celebrate fall in Alsace with a family-style dinner inspired by the traditional dishes he […]

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Cafe Presse and Le Pichet are proud to invite you to a special dinner Le Pichet and Café Presse executive chef Jim Drohman recently spent a week visiting family, tasting wine and touring the countryside of this storybook beautiful region. Come celebrate fall in Alsace with a family-style dinner inspired by the traditional dishes he

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Perfect Finale

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A nice way to end a Fall meal in SW France: cow’s milk blue cheese from les Landes, organic baguette, last of the season green figs, chocolate from a local organic artisan and a glass of madiran.

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A nice way to end a Fall meal in SW France: cow’s milk blue cheese from les Landes, organic baguette, last of the season green figs, chocolate from a local organic artisan and a glass of madiran.

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Restaurants

Au Pont Corbeau, Strasbourg France

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The best winstub in Strasbourg hides in plain sight.  Restaurant Au Pont Corbeau is located right on the quai Saint-Nicolas, a somber, almost windowless brown facade frowning out at the Musée Historique de la ville de Strasbourg located just across the river in the heart of the old town.  If you didn’t know it’s reputation,

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The best winstub in Strasbourg hides in plain sight.  Restaurant Au Pont Corbeau is located right on the quai Saint-Nicolas, a somber, almost windowless brown facade frowning out at the Musée Historique de la ville de Strasbourg located just across the river in the heart of the old town.  If you didn’t know it’s reputation,

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Le Pichet

Help us Fête the Beaujolais Nouveau!

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Join us at Le Pichet for a traditional café-style celebration of the first new wine of 2016.  Thursday November 17, 2016, 6pm till late A selection of Beaujolais Nouveau by the glass, pichet or bottle Special menu of traditional street food Live music starting at 7pm No reservations   No cover charge   Everyone welcome

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Join us at Le Pichet for a traditional café-style celebration of the first new wine of 2016.  Thursday November 17, 2016, 6pm till late A selection of Beaujolais Nouveau by the glass, pichet or bottle Special menu of traditional street food Live music starting at 7pm No reservations   No cover charge   Everyone welcome

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Fall menu starts at Café Presse

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The new fall menu for 2016 started on October 18 at Cafe Presse.  Along with the return of a couple of old favorites (oysters on the half shell with sauce mignonette…soupe a l’oignon gratinée), Chef de cuisine Pat MacWhorter has introduced a whole slate of new dishes that feature the bounty of the fall farm

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The new fall menu for 2016 started on October 18 at Cafe Presse.  Along with the return of a couple of old favorites (oysters on the half shell with sauce mignonette…soupe a l’oignon gratinée), Chef de cuisine Pat MacWhorter has introduced a whole slate of new dishes that feature the bounty of the fall farm

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2016 Holiday Hours

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Cafe Presse and Le Pichet will observe the following special hours during the 2016 Holiday Season so that our hard-working team may spend time with their families. Le Pichet: Thanksgiving, Thursday November 24              Closed all day Christmas Eve, Saturday December 24             Open for breakfast and lunch, closing at 2pm Christmas Day, Sunday December 25                Closed

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Cafe Presse and Le Pichet will observe the following special hours during the 2016 Holiday Season so that our hard-working team may spend time with their families. Le Pichet: Thanksgiving, Thursday November 24              Closed all day Christmas Eve, Saturday December 24             Open for breakfast and lunch, closing at 2pm Christmas Day, Sunday December 25                Closed

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Merluchon

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  A simple dinner at the house in Orthez: small “merluchons” broiled with garlic, lemon and olive oil…yummy! Merlu is the Atlantic fish that we know in English as hake. You will also find it on French menus as colin  and as far as I have been able find, merluchon just means small merlu. Merlu

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  A simple dinner at the house in Orthez: small “merluchons” broiled with garlic, lemon and olive oil…yummy! Merlu is the Atlantic fish that we know in English as hake. You will also find it on French menus as colin  and as far as I have been able find, merluchon just means small merlu. Merlu

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Cooking Classes

Fall 2016 Cooking Class

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Hands-on Chicken Workshop What:  A hands-on workshop all about cooking chicken.  Each student will work with their own chicken to learn the basics, then divide up in pairs to actually practice three different cooking methods. When:     Three class dates will be offered Sunday November 6, 2016, 12noon to 3:30pm or Monday November 7,

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Hands-on Chicken Workshop What:  A hands-on workshop all about cooking chicken.  Each student will work with their own chicken to learn the basics, then divide up in pairs to actually practice three different cooking methods. When:     Three class dates will be offered Sunday November 6, 2016, 12noon to 3:30pm or Monday November 7,

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