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

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

  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

The Vosges are a chain of low mountains that run along the western extreme of the Alsace, separating it from the Lorraine.  Although these days the  Vosges are much prized in the winter by skiers, both downhill and cross county, and in the summer by hikers, in the past they comprised a region only sparsely