Brunch at La Vie En Rose: Restaurant Review

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Wakey wakey! La Vie En Rose opens bright & early, serving lunch Tuesdays through Fridays & brunch on weekends.

Croque Tartiflette

Comfort food in a sandwich, plumped up with potatoes, onions & Reblochon, a cow’s milk cheese from the French Alps region of Haute-Savoie. Hot & hearty, this might be the ultimate carb-laden nightmare for an Atkins dieter.

Eggs Dishes

The creamiest, most aromatic scrambled eggs we’ve had in ages, temptingly laced with truffles. Decadence need not wait till nightfall. Served with La Vie En Rose’s own pumpkin jam – a homemade spread that we initially thought was produced from apricot & persimmon.

Two perfectly poached eggs with Hollandaise sauce in a hollowed-out bread. A Gallic twist to Eggs Benedict, every bit as sinfully brilliant. Note: most of La Vie En Rose’s egg dishes are available only on weekends.

Salad

Roasted pumpkin, grana padano cheese, rocket, grilled nuts & balsamic vinegar – many of our favorite salad ingredients in one bowl

Sardines from Brittany

Connetable sardines in extra virgin olive oil & lemon. These sardines from Brittany are a treat, with flesh that’s flakier & less stinky than supermarket varieties.

Foie Gras Terrine

La Vie En Rose’s foie gras terrine, filled with apple compote, is absolutely as good as liver gets. Not on the a la carte menu, but ask if it’s available.

Grouper Bouillabaisse

This photo-edited-till-golden, grouper-only version of bouillabaisse brims with the rich brininess that only something from the sea can supply. Chickens, cows & pigs need not apply.

Cheese

Don’t move our cheese: La Vie En Rose serves nice ones. For cow’s milk cheese, try the silky-soft Saint-Marcellin or the firmer Salers from the volcanic mountains of Auvergne.

Abondance, Ossau Iraty & Blue Stilton. Wish we were more of cheese connoisseurs, so that we could appreciate these better. Still, they tasted terrific to us.