TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Restaurant Review: Dog in a Restaurant!

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Restaurant Review: Dog in a Restaurant! - Bistro des Artistes, Honfleur, France

Despite the compact size of the seaside place of Honfleur, it has numerous restaurants, galleries, and shops. The manager of the apartment we stayed at recommended the following restaurants:

1. Au Boillon Normand
2. Bistro des Artistes
3. Bistro du port
4. Cap 42
5. La Commanderie
6. L'Ecailleur
7. L'Endroit
8. L'Homme de Bois
9. Le Gambetta

On our first night we ate at an outdoor restaurant with a lovely view of the basin where the boats moored. I don't recall the name; it was pleasant but the food was unremarkable.

The second night, we decided to eat at the Bistro des Artistes, which was directly in front of our apartment. It's a very small but charming place with a resident dog staying there. I guess he belongs to the owner as he is very comfortable and very friendly. We laughed of course thinking how the US officials would get hysterical over having a dog in a restaurant. In any case the dog, named after a gopher --- I could not get the French name --- was very sweet and well-behaved.

Our meal at the Bistro des Artistes was superb! Two of us had duck, the third had lamb and we were all very happy over our food. The duck was sweet, tender, and was a generous size (a big duck, I imagine). I tasted the lamb and that was also wonderful - tender, flavorful, rubbed with salt. Our wine was exquisite; it was an award-winning bottle from the South of France.

We had a lovely time at the Bistro des Artistes and highly recommend it.

P.S. The weather continues to be cloudy, wet, and cold, but we are having a wonderful time. Everything is very green, and the houses and buildings are very charming.

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Tags: travel, food, restaurants, France, Honfleur, wine, holiday
This is all for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.