Uncategorized – Jim Drohman

Accras de morue are back!

Jim — Sun, 15 May 2022 20:21:16 +0000

Accras de morue are back on the menu at Le Pichet! For spring, we are serving these crispy curried salt cod beignets on a salad of escarole, zucchini, parsley, spring onions and capers with a charred onion vinaigrette. Miam Miam

Next Democratic Debate at Café Presse

Jim — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 18:40:01 +0000

Join us for Round Three!
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY DEBATE

Thursday September 12th

Viewing starts at 5:00 pm

No reservations, no cover, everyone is welcome!
Checkout out our on-line event calendar for up to date event information

We’re open on Labor Day

Jim — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 15:00:15 +0000

Le Pichet and Cafe Presse will both be open regular hours on Labor Day Monday September 2, 2019.

Le Pichet open everyday from 8am to midnight

Café Presse open everyday from 8am to 1am

Women’s World Cup 2019 Match Schedule

Jim — Mon, 20 May 2019 21:17:54 +0000

The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 kicks off on Friday June 7th with host team France facing South Korea.

Café Presse will be showing every match* including every France and every USA match Live, including

USA v Chile Sunday 6/16 live at 6AM

*Matches other than France and USA that start at 6am will be shown delayed. For full weekly match schedule, visit our website at www.cafepresseseattle.com

World Cup 2018 kicks off this Thursday!

Jim — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:26:52 +0000

Join us from June 14 to July 15

Thursday June 14 – Fête de la Coupe

What: A World Cup kickoff party!
When: 7am to 10am, Kick-off match at 8am, host team Russia v Saudi Arabia

Start the World Cup right with breakfast & libations starting at 7am
Croques, frites, omelettes, cocktail specials, free World Cup cake and more
Free Raffle to win a reservation for 6 at the World Cup Final including breakfast chosen by our chef.

Saturday June 16 – Fête Bleue

What: France’s first match followed by back to back matches until 4pm
When: Saturday June 16 from 7:00am until 4:00 pm

A full day of matches starting at 7am with France v Australia
Special tartine, pissaladiere, cocktails specials and more
Free Raffle to win a reservation for 6 at the World Cup Final including breakfast chosen by our chef.

Plus throughout the Tournament:

During all French team matches:
$14 bottles of white, red or rosé $10 cheese & charcuterie plate

During all afternoon replays:
$1.00 off Kronenbourg during all afternoon match replays

Special World Cup cocktail to benefit Fare Start (www.farestart.org)

Showing all matches starting at 7am. Afternoon rebroadcast of big matches

For up-to-date match info visit our weekly event calendar

Ask your server for a free World Cup match schedule

Now on the menu at Le Pichet, June 2017

Jim — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 18:47:16 +0000

Slow roasted pork ribs, salad of red oak leaf lettuce, corona beans, shaved fennel, bing cherries and roasted fennel purée

Check out the new dishes that Le Pichet chef de cuisine Dave Cooper has recently added to the menu for early summer!

Crispy semolina fried beef tripe served on a ragout of artichokes, escarole, garlic and white wine.

Smoked pork heart, thinly sliced and served on butter lettuce with sauce gribiche.

Roasted parsnip soup, red wine braised beef shank, Fourme d’Ambert

Jim — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:29:26 +0000

This was the dish we served at the 2017 Bailey Boushay House Chef’s Dinner. A good choices for either a warm, filling first course or, with a green salad, a light but satisfying supper during the cold winter months.

Serves 8

New Year’s Resolution: Polish my French skills at the French Conversation Table at Café Presse

Jim — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 18:26:56 +0000

2017 Dates for the French Conversation Table at
Café Presse:

January:           04, 18                July:              05, 19
February:         01, 15                August:       02, 16, 30
March:             01,15,29              September:   13, 27
April:                12, 26                  October:        11, 25
May:                10, 24                   November:    08 (no meeting on 11/22)
June:               07, 21                   December:    06, 20

Every second Wednesday from 4pm to 6pm, please join us for French conversation in the back room at Café Presse. At each meeting, a French speaking facilitator will be on hand to get the discussion rolling. The Conversation Table is free and open to French speakers of all levels. Hope to see you there.

And don’t forget that every day from 4pm to 6pm (including during the French Conversation Table) you can enjoy our VinExpresse Happy Hour, when all in-house bottles of wine are available for take-out prices as well as special prices on wine-friendly snacks.

Summer Chef’s Dinner photos

Jim — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 19:15:42 +0000

Vinegar cured anchovies and nectarine-basil tartare with sherry and hazelnuts on grilled baguette slices.

The Summer 2016 Chef’s Dinner at Café Presse was last Tuesday and we had a great time!

The theme for the dinner was “Summer in the Pays Basque” and the menu took its inspiration from the recent trip to the French Basque countries taken by our chef de cuisine Patrick MacWhorter.

Keep your eye on Café Presse’s website or this blog for info about the next Chef’s Dinner, coming in November 2016. And if you would like to be on our mailing list for events like this, please sign up for monthly newsletter here.

Eggs scrambled with piperade, on sliced baguette.

Spinach and sheep’s milk cheese croquetas.

Local tomatoes with marinated salt cod, walnuts, creamy lemon vinaigrette and poached eggs.

Penn Cove clams and Pacific calamari in sauce verte

Tolosa beans simmered with sweet peppers, chard, smoked paprika and Basque cider, garnished with boudin noir, grilled pork collar and braised pork short ribs.

Natillas: poured custard flavored with lemon and cinnamon, peaches and almond shortbread

Meet “la Famille”

Jim — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:34:20 +0000

Jim with Mado and Marion

The general knowledge in my family has always been that our Drohman ancestors came to America from the area along the border between southern Germany and northern Switzerland. I remember as a kid always saying that our people were German. However, in my head, this was all about something that had happened in the very distant past and didn’t have much impact on my life.

However, in the late ’90s, well after the time when I lived in Paris and discovered my love for French cuisine, I found out, via an uncle who is nuts for genealogy, that I have Drohman relations who are French! The story my uncle uncovered involved two brothers who left southern Germany in the last part of the 19th century, with the intention of starting a new life in America. As fate and circumstance would have it, one brother stopped in Alsace near the town of Mulhouse, and the other continued on to the United States. They respectively founded the French and American branches of the Drohman family.

Today, most of the French Drohmanns (note the extra “n”) still live in Alsace, although I know of at least one, Marion Poirez (born Drohmann) who lives in Paris. Marion and her husband, mother and father recently made a trip to visit the West Coast of the United States, starting in Seattle. During their visit, I had the pleasure of introducing them to the Pike Place Market and of welcoming them for dinner at Le Pichet. And we hope to visit Marion and her husband when we are in Paris this month.

I seems that those people from the very distant past do have an impact on my life after all.