Food review

This past week, we decided to try a little restaurant called L'Ambassade d'Auvergne.

When the first two people in our party arrived, they were told that since they had no reservations, the restaurant did not have room. However, upon our arrival, my roomie was able to charm them into finding us a table. We sat down and were handed menus. In French. Not a big deal, right? I mean food is generally easy to understand, right? That would be a no.

For instance, there was a dish called "Saucisse de Parlan & Aligot". Sausage with something. But with what? There was also the "Filets d'Omble Chevalier poêlés aux Amandes, Purée de Potiron" where the words we understood were filet (of horse?!) with almonds and puree. After much examination and attempts at translating the menus, I finally broke down and asked for an English menu, and low and behold things actually made sense (though we are still not sure if that really was a filet of horse on the menu).

The waiter brought us bread and pork pate (yum!) to hold us over until our food was ready. One of my friends ordered the lentils, which were actually fairly decent and had a bit of an onion-y spice to them. For the meal, I had the aforementioned sausage with mashed potatoes with cheese (or is it actually more fair to say cheese with mashed potatoes?). This dish was absolutely delicious and I would highly recommend it. I also stole a little bit of the cabbage millefeuille from someone at the table and it was quite good as well (this coming from someone who tends to hate cooked cabbage). Unfortunately, we did not have room for dessert portion of this event, though we all dreamt about the mousse au chocolat. The table next to us told us that they had ordered one mousse au chocolat which came in a big tub with enough for 3-4 people to share easily!

Definitely a thumbs up and I intend to drag my parents here so they can try the sausage and potatoes and I can indulge my sweet tooth!