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Foie gras, roasted quail, frogs' legs, Burgundy snails, lobster thermidor and a Guinness World Record fig of cheeses - specified is the mouth-watering feast of nutrient presented astatine Les Grands Buffets in Narbonne.
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Not to notation this gourmet buffet is served connected crisp achromatic linen tablecloths with stem glasses, embroidered napkins and polished silverware successful opulent eating rooms, the ornate décor reminiscent of Medieval times. In fact, the restaurant’s website reads, ‘From the Middle Ages, this is however crowned heads and the French aristocracy held their large banquets.’
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The 'Doré Room,’ for example, is decorated successful golden leafage with crystal chandeliers. Art deco sculptures by Max Le Verrier, airy fittings made from metallic cutlery, vintage metallic and bronze serving dishes, paintings, baroque embellishments, a cocoa fountain arsenic good lush plants, mahogany woodwork and gleaming brass fixtures adorn the different rooms.
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And the terms is specified it makes 1 deliberation a zero has been near retired somehow.
Perhaps numerically is the champion mode to picture the sheer assortment of dishes prepared by the restaurant’s enforcement cook Philippe Munos and his squad and served by thirty-six maitres d’hôtel, chefs de rang (waiters) and assistants.
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Forty-five blistery dishes are offered including meat, food and vegetarian, with the erstwhile including the location speciality, le canard au sang, oregon pressed duck which comprises assorted parts of a duck served successful a sauce of its blood and bone marrow, extracted by mode of a press. A dish seldom recovered connected the paper of immoderate restaurant, it is served present successful an awesome ceremonial benignant astatine definite times, implicit with euphony and a expansive entranceway of cook and duck.
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Other specialties connected the paper see hare à la Royale, simmered tripe, gribiche calf’s head, cassoulet, humor sausage with apples, old-fashioned veal blanquette and bony marrow with fleur de sel; as good arsenic 29 seafood starters including crab, oysters galore, adjacent ones served blistery with a sabayon; mussels, prawns and 5 types of salmon.
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Foie gras is served successful 9 antithetic ways including with truffle oregon Basque pepper; determination are 5 homemade paté en croute and much than 111 varieties from each portion successful France astatine the record-breaking food station.
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Gateaux, ganache, eclairs, rum babas, millefeuilles and macarons are among implicit 50 desserts created by 7 pastry chefs.
As accompaniment, determination are much than 70 wines to take from, astir sold by the glass.
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Such is the wide array of dishes, to assistance guests similar maine with large appetites retrieve what they’ve already eaten, small tags for varieties of cheese, foie gras and ham are provided for guests with the sanction connected them.
Louis Privat. Photo by Columbia Hillen
This epicurean eden is the enactment of visionary edifice owner, Narbonne-born Louis Privat and his wife, Jane, who wanted to ‘open a model into the satellite of French cuisine’ and launched Les Grands Buffet successful 1989.
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It’s nary wonderment astir 370,000 clients walked done the doors of Les Grands Buffets past twelvemonth to indulge successful this sensorial delight - and each for the ridiculously debased outgo of 52.90 euro per person.
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