Want a late-19th-century Parisian afternoon? Go to La Boheme
When Mother is a good cook, too often she’s also a dainty diner. Her standard of a good outie consists of a spotless floor, a high ceiling, white table cloth, classy customers, and fine china. So when it comes to taking Mother out for dinner, I have to be extra careful. French is always a safe choice. A French restaurant in the City of Trees is even better, as the rows of Eucalyptus loftily overlooked us driving through, bringing her back to memories of Saigon’s Duy Tan Street. The good mood was set. We arrived at La Boheme in the midst of a sun-bathed afternoon Farmers’ Market, white tents made the variegated crowd all the more picturesque. A step into the open-doored restaurant and the ambience transformed into cool air, quietude, and refined elegance.
Seeing that it was past noon, we skipped the appetizers. The benefit of having company is the ease of trying out different categories in a menu: from land to sea to bakery, from duck confit stew to pan-roasted salmon to sandwich la Bohème.
It would be almost contrived to go about describing the taste. The look says it all. Tenderness shows on the lustrous russet hue of the duck skin, succulence is embedded in the creamy tone of “ground apple” purée, garden’s and oven’s crisps join harmonically in vibrant colors. Perhaps the only setback was the acrid zest of dijon mustard on the sandwich, a taste I have yet to acquaint.
Like a palette with no fixed sets of color patches, this pâtisserie does not have a fixed dessert menu all year round. The business goes by daily creations, but the mousse and the mille-feuille are as irresistible to the chefs as they are enticing to the diners: the window counter cannot lack their beauty, nor can the palates refuse their luscious embrace. Just this once I actually let go of the wicked craving for chocolate and chose the fruity mousse, every morsel of which I adored. Indeed, nothing can beat the citric acid’s touch of delight.
Was it the drowsy sunbeams that made this cafe more removed from its neighboring reality and closer to some distant realm one can only find in books and old movies? Two ladies in their late 60s and wide brim hats softly sipped the afternoon away at a nearby table. Their presence furnished the luncheonette with a whiff of Chez la Père Lathuille – minus Manet’s humorous romantic air, of course, and plus a few walls.
La Bohème Café & Pâtisserie
1425 Burlingame Avenue
Burlingame, CA 94101
650-347-3331
Lunch (and dessert) for Four: $81.94
I would like to thank you for posting such interesting post. I love your blog. Many thanks for letting me share my thoughts on your blog post. I hope additional interesting updates from you soon.
1Very informative and great structure of subject material, now that’s user pleasant (:.
2I have been reading out many of your stories and it’s nice stuff. I will surely bookmark your site.
3Rattling nice style and wonderful content, nothing at all else we need :D.
4WONDERFUL Post.thanks for share..extra wait .. …
5There is noticeably a bundle to know about this. I assume you made certain nice points in features also.
6Some times its a pain in the ass to read what people wrote but this web site is rattling user pleasant! .
7I went over this web site and I conceive you have a lot of wonderful information, saved to bookmarks (:.
8Thanks so much for providing this great content. I absolutely love your website. Thank you for providing a space for me to comment on your blog post. I look forward to more informative publications from you soon.
9Hello, I think your blog might be having browser compatibility issues. When I look at your website in Firefox, it looks fine but when opening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping. I just wanted to give you a quick heads up! Other then that, wonderful blog!
10Many thanks for publishing such wonderful information. I absolutely love your blog. Many thanks for allowing me to comment on your article. I would love to see additional interesting updates from you soon.
11Hmm is anyone else experiencing problems with the pictures on this blog loading? I’m trying to figure out if its a problem on my end or if it’s the blog. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
12I’m extremely impressed with your writing skills as well as with the layout on your blog. Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself? Either way keep up the excellent quality writing, it’s rare to see a great blog like this one nowadays..
13Many thanks for sharing such valuable content. I really like your blog. Thank you for allowing me to comment on your web page. I hope more interesting posts from you soon.
14I would like to thnkx for the efforts you have put in writing this web site. I am hoping the same high-grade website post from you in the upcoming as well. Actually your creative writing abilities has encouraged me to get my own website now. Really the blogging is spreading its wings quickly. Your write up is a good example of it.
15You made some clear points there. I looked on the internet for the subject and found most people will go along with with your website.
16Hi there! This post couldn’t be written any better! Reading through this post reminds me of my previous room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this article to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read. Thank you for sharing!
17