Who Put The Lamb In French Cooking!!!!

Kris Bistro did!!!!

I ate an absolutely wonderful lamb dish Friday 5/16/2014.  The olives and couscous served on the side could have been so that it wasn't hiding underneath the little cast iron pot thingy the lamb was served in.  I had to fish around it to maneauver the side dish so I could access it easily enough to eat it.  But that would be my one and only complaint about my lunch there that day.  Everything was so easy-going, peaceful, elegant.  I felt like high-society eating lunch in such a place when I'm used to the hustle and bustle of more gastronomic mayhems.  Cold and unrelentingly simple they are but not at Kris Bistro.  What a Treat!  Especially when I hear one of the newcombers exclaim to the waiter, "Oh, I loved it!  I'll come back here again, again, again!!!".  That's nice to know, especially since I will be cooking in that same kitchen that made her meal that day.  Yes, I am already a student at LeNotre culinary Institute which houses Kris Bistro and the chefs that teach, taught, those who are advanced students there.  But, this review isn't about me, it's about the food.  The food and the ambience, the place are all on the same level of high quality, high class, with a low price point.  Yes, your ears and eyes aren't failing you!  My huge lunch only costs $20.  Well $4.00 extra for the lamb.  But I would have paid more.

To start off, the $20 included a Soup du Jour which included a salad.  The soup was a delicious creamy tomato soup with a side of spring greens, fresh, and tomatoes, also fresh.  And a drizzle or two of a light dressing.

Then, came my meal as explained already except that the lamb, and Oh the Lamb!  You know lamb can have a strong flavor to it.  Not this lamb.  If I hadn't known that I'd ordered it then I'd swear up-and-down that it was roast beef.   It was served as a stew.  It tasted like beef stew.  I detected no strong lamb-y flavor which I strongly appreciate!  I really just wanted to see how the French could possibly make the dish rather appetizing.  They did a splendid job.

The service was impeccable.  I didn't have to wait any excessive length of time.  As soon as I finished my Soup du Jour, my entree was right there.  You have to admit that's pretty damn good, especially for a daypart service where the patrons are normally pressed for time.  I really felt cared for, and about.  Lastly, my dessert.. I had a choice of Sherbert of the day or a Noisette, chocolote, decadent, served with LeNotre Ice Cream (I imagine that means it's made in-house), OMG!  Shut the front door!  Beautiful display, the food stylist deserves credit as well.  The taste was just to die for!  A complexity of decadence and flavors and ooey gooey-ness with the rich chocolate and the oh-so-perfect caramel.  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  so divine!

The menu featured 2 other entree choices to choose from, a salmon meal and a chicken meal.. these were meals not just single solitary dishes.  The lamb was a meal.  Meal is not including the Soup du Jour nor the dessert or the crispy French breadsticks, and butter they give you when you first sit down at your table.  Oh and with the chocolate Noisette, the server asked me if I'd like coffee to accompany it.  I told him no, because I already had my iced tea that I hadn't finished yet.  Boy, as I was devouring, engulfing the dessert all I could dream of was that coffee would set this dish through the stars, and straight to Heaven!  Next time, I'm ordering coffee with my Noisette!!

And I must mention that this is my 3rd visit to Kris Bistro, 2nd outside of school, and I just absolutely love the adorable tiny square sugar cubes they give you on a little white tray with a little silver spoon, a little white bowl on that tray of sugar packets.  It's sooo cute!  It gives me the feel of an English tea party.