Last week a few coworkers and I ate lunch at Fleur de Sel, a well-regarded modern French restaurant. They have a $25 prix-fix lunch. The lunch was three courses, the first was a frothy parsnip soup, with the cutest little parsnip raviolis you ever saw. Really good. Next I had duck & duck confit combination, which was an interesting contrast. The duck was perfectly done, and the light sauce complimented it nicely, without overwhelming the taste. Finally, I had a trio of fruit sorbets that had a really nice natural flavor to it. I didn't have anything that totally blew me away, but the parsnip soup came fairly close.
I'm getting to be more and more a fan of the prix-fix lunch. You can have a really nice, elegant three-course meal for a reasonable price. Yes, it is expensive, but a few cheap meals at other times will more than make up for it.
Another one I had recently was at Nino's Tuscany, where I had probably the best cooked pasta I've ever had. It was perfectly al-dente, which is really tricky to do and requires precise timing.
And, is it prix-fix or prix-fixe? I see both spellings.
Posted by ahyatt at October 1, 2005 01:54 PMIt's prix-fixe in French, "prix" means "price" and is actually a masculin noun, "fixe" means "set", the word "fix" doesn't exist in French.
Posted by: dB. on October 1, 2005 04:10 PM