Monday, June 02, 2008

Restaurant Le Bon Vivre, Place Wilson, Toulouse.

On our last night at Toulouse, we were hunting around the city centre for a good restaurant for dinner. We actually found a place that serves good beef steaks which cost 50 Euro for a 5 kilo piece of meat. They were full so we had to go elesewhere. We also wanted to try our other favourite place D'Entrecote but it was close till July. So I guess we have to make another try to Toulouse just to try the beef again. Then we decided to go to the Capitole for dinner, as we were walking there we notice there lots of people going there, infact thousands. When we reached there we found out the Maroon was having a free concert at the Capitole.
So back tracked to and we ended up at Place Wilson. As I had not eaten actual Fioe Gra before, we chose this place to have dinner. They have Foie Gra as a 'eu plate' (main course in French). All this while we were having pate foie gra as an entree so this is a must try.
Well the wife ordered the set dinner as I only ordered the Foie Gra 'eu plate'. We also ordered the cassoulet.
What was surprising was that the entree came with a bowl of salad with pork patee. It was quite a big serving and we were wondering how are we going to finish our mains. The Foie Gra tasted totally different from the patee version that we had before. Imagine eating duck liver that is full of fat. It tasted like eating duck fat. They cooked it with lots of garlic as I am suspecting that it may smell without it. My wife didn't like it at all. Well I told her that it was the real deal of the speciality in France. The Foie Gra mains alone cost 25 Euro.
As for the rest of dinner, it was definately a fat over load as the pork patee had large amount of fate in it. The cassoulet had pork stomach or intestines with pork skin and of course the foie gra.
What a dinner to end a 5 weeks stay in Toulouse. Fat overload!!!




Atmosphere around the restaurant.

Salad that goes with the pork pate.
Pork pate for starters.
Cassoulet.
Cassoulet on the plate.
Foie Gra 'eu plate'
Ice Cream for dessert.Ice cream with bread cake.

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