Cuvee

Frommer's Review

Doing its darndest to be considered the best restaurant in town, Cuvee is certainly the most innovative and interesting. Join local raving foodies in a romantic and cozy brick-lined room where you might get to sample -- should the seasonally changing menu allow -- the foie gras three ways (seared, tourchon topped with praline bacon on toast, and -- wait for it -- in crème brûlée, pretty much the best pork-and-egg dish you might ever have) or the hilarious and yet weirdly successful foie gras Twinkie. There are sweetbreads in puff pastry, and a seared tuna atop a lush avocado salad, paired with heirloom tomato sorbet and watermelon-vodka gazpacho (what a healthy way to have a shot!). Osso buco comes deconstructed, with the "bone" made of potato with the marrow whipped into more potato filling the interior. Mustard-and-herb-crusted salmon comes atop crabmeat brie orzo with lemon confit. But it's the pork belly that keeps more than one local connoisseur coming back for more. Fittingly, desserts are equally witty (look for tapioca pudding with bourbon ice cream and their take on the drumstick ice-cream novelty). And then there's the wine list. You might well eat and eat and eat and at the end, want to do it all over again.

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