I know I'm late again this week with the patisserie de la semaine. I've dropped the ball and I'll try to get back on track before the weekend. But for now I've posted some photos from our latest bouchon experience. Bouchons are the "meat and three", "the comfort food", "the soul food" and /or "the food the French grandmother you never had made" restaurants of Lyon.
I ran across the bouchon Le Musee recently on a shopping excursion downtown and wondered about it. After reading outstanding reviews on Trip Advisor (see the reviews HERE) we gave it a try. My dinner was fantastic. I had the chicken liver salad and pork cheeks for the entree. My friend was underwhelmed with his dinner however. He had the white asparagus salad and the quenelle for his entree. He said it was good but it wasn't anything to write home about. I will say this: the quenelle at Abel is the best I've had anywhere. Take into account I'm not exactly a quenelle expert but if the measure of a good quenelle Lyonnaise is the perplexing dual consistency of firm and at the same time utterly light then Abel has the market on them.
The check at Le Musee is delivered to the table in a "bone". Cute, no?
The back door of the restaurant opens into a traboule and the restaurant owner, armed with a flashlight, will give you a quick tour. The above not so impressive passageway opens into a stunning renaissance courtyard. That's Lyon!
Looking into one of the restaurant kitchens from the traboule
A funny sign inside the dining room declares, "Everything in the pig is good".