Le Beaujolais Nouveau est Arrivé!!!

It's the third Thursday in November and that can mean only one thing in France: Beaujolais Nouveau. (For more information on Beaujolais Nouveau, click here or check out the website for the Beaujolais region in France.) To celebrate the arrival of this very drinkable wine, we decided to try out the restaurant across the street from our apartment called "Le Vin de Zinc". They had a special "Beaujolais Nouveau" menu for lunch so we packed up Emmett and his booster chair and headed over.

Our landlady told us that this place was probably the best restaurant on the block, but it's taken us awhile to actually try it out. We were pleasantly surprised with the food. They have a set menu where you can choose one of two entrées, one of two plats (main dish) and one of two desserts. We decided to try each of the appetizers and main dishes and then ordered just one of the desserts.

For starters, Lynna had the salade de pót au feu (beef stew with vegetables) and I had the terrine de lièvre (wild hare paté with cornichons and caramelized onion confit) -- both were very good. For our main dishes, Lynna had the petit sále aux lentilles (salted pork with lentil beans) and I had the poitrine de veau (veal chest--sort of like bacon) which came with stewed parsnips. For dessert, we shared the entremet au chocolat, a chocolate dessert that was between a chocolate mousse and chocolate cake. You can see that Emmett wasn't too happy about not being able to share in our dessert.

Of course we had to have two glasses of beaujolais nouveau to wash everything down. I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the food -- everything was tasty and well-prepared. And for 13 € for the appetizer and main dish, I think we'll be back again, especially since it's so conveniently located. If you look closely at the picture of Lynna and Emmett below, you can see the big iron gate that leads to our apartment complex across the street with our address (22).