263467 Fri Oct 31 13:55:51 -0800 2003 2 26 International 0 1391687 I have finally identified a restaurant capable of making the L'Oreiller de la Belle Aurore dish described in Lucien Tendret's (sp) "La Table au Pays de Brillat-Savarin" (The dining table in the country of Brillat-Savarin) The L'Oreiller dish is one of the three famous pates of Belley ("Les Trois Pâtés de Belley"). The restaurant is Gerard Besson, which recently lost its second Michelin star. The dish is for a minimum of two people, and requires advance notice. Besson is known for game, so it's a good venue for having the dish. I didn't ask how much the dish was, as the price became irrelevant once its availability was identified. This dish contains: veal, partridge, rabbit, chicken, duck, porc and sweetbreads. I have sky-high expectations of this dish. Fri Oct 31 13:55:51 -0800 2003 0 cabrales 1 1391835 From Lucas Carton's website : "Pie filled with game and foie gras and served with a mixed salad with truffle oil and roasty juice". This is one of the dishes they serve as part of the lunch menu.Do you know if this is, even remotely, linked to the "Oreillier de la Belle Aurore"? Or is this a more classical "pithivier de gibier"? Incidentally, which dish would you go for on their current lunch menu? I was thinking the canette but could use some enlightened advice. Thu Nov 06 11:46:19 -0800 2003 1391687 0 molochbaal 2 1391853 The Lucas-Carton dish not L'Oreiller, although that would be a natural question, given some of the ingredients of the L-C pie. The L'Oreiller dish is so distinctive that it would have been named as such, I would imagine. Alexandre Dumaine cooked at least two of the three pates in Tendret's book for the Club des Cents, at La Cote d'Or. One of the three pates (not the Oreiller) requires woodcock, which is now prohibited from being sold in restaurants in France. I plan to take in the L-C pie dish too, and will report on it and the restaurant's wine-by-the-glass pairing. I'd have to admit that the duck main course in the business lunch menu (76 euros) sounds good too. Typically, one item on the main course side is a pigeon from Kernivian or some specified place sounding similar to that. It's a good choice among the mains. Thu Nov 06 16:45:03 -0800 2003 1391835 0 cabrales