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My lifelong friend John's girlfriend / house shopping buddy was told that I like food. And Susan knows Los Angeles like you wouldn't believe.

So John told her that I like good food. Bless her heart, she took me to the West Hollywood Foodie Altar of Lucques on a Sunday night.

In the image below we see Susan lurking in the shadows (she's kinda a behind-the-scenes type) of my dessert crepes.




I have eaten all over the world and there are three restaurants that stand head and shoulders above everything else for outright technique. I have been to many other restaurants that had vibrant flavors that blew me away, but this is my top three technique list:

These were:

1. Cafe Nora in Washington DC
2. Le Crocodile in Vancouver BC
and now Lucques.

We went on Sunday, so we had the Sunday dinner (see the web site).

I had the mussels. They were delicious, the sauce and the white beans went perfectly with the mussels. But the real technique was shown in the rillettes. The duck in the rillettes was perfectly fibrous, the accompanying greens balanced it nicely and were sparse enough not to overwhelm it. It was excellently balanced.

For us this meant:

sunday, february 4, 2007

duck rillettes with savoy cabbage,

mizuna salad and cornichon

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mussels and clams paysanne with jamon,

green garlic, stinging nettles and white beans

or

roast leg of lamb with warm spinach salad, olives,

anchovy and fried pumpkin persillade

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warm crepes with apple confit,

crushed almonds and crème fraîche

40 dollars per person

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So, I was successfully food-wooed by Susan Mainzer.

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west hollywood , california , los angeles , ***** , lucques , john von seggern , susan mainzer