All dishes:

Poultry

Roast duck breast with blackcurrant berries

Freshwater fish

Bordeaux style sturgeon

Bordelaise sauce : a red wine reduction infused with bone marrow, shallots, tarragon or thyme, butter, and flour.

Mushrooms, Vegetables, Pasta and Rice

Lobster risotto with saffron

Risotto : reduction of a broth with cooked rice and one or several diverse ingredients.
Saffron sauce : butter, crème fraîche, shallot, and fish stock.

Desserts

French toast and vanilla ice cream

Sea fish

Wing with beurre noisette

Beurre noisette (brown butter) : butter cooked until it reaches a light brown color and a nutty aroma, then strained into a cold container to stop the cooking.

Sea fish

Roasted sea bass with beurre blanc sauce

Beurre blanc sauce : shallot reduction with wine and vinegar blended with whipped butter.

Sheep and Goats

Roasted rack of lamb with thyme

Cheeses

Good Thunder

United States. Minnesota.
Soft-ripened cheese made from cow's milk with a beer-washed rind (Brown ale).
Ripening : 3 to 4 weeks.

Cheeses

Manchego curado

Spain. Castilla-La Mancha.
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from sheep's milk wrapped in wax.
Ripening : 3 to 6 months.

Sea fish

Sardine fritters

Cheeses

L’Ami du Chambertin

France. Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
Soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a marc de Bourgogne washed rind.

Desserts

Honey and walnut tart

Salads

Sautéed bay scallop salad and black truffle vinaigrette

Shellfish and Seafood

Lobster with lemon butter sauce

Lemon butter sauce : lemon, crème fraîche and butter.

Warm starters

Shrimp puff pastry

Desserts

Macarons

Cupcakes made of two meringue-based biscuits with a cream or ganache filling in between.

Cheeses

Pierre Robert

France. Île de France. Seine-et-Marne. Tournan-en-Brie.
Triple-cream soft-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk with a bloomy rind.

Cheeses

Trappe de Timadeuc

France. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Dordogne (Périgord).
Pressed and uncooked cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk.
Ripening : 6 weeks.

Freshwater fish

Grilled tilapia

Desserts

Pumpkin meringue pie

Cold starters

Fish and vegetable pâté

Served cold.

Desserts

Strawberry charlotte

Charlotte : dessert made with cookies, sponge cake, or bread surrounding a heart filled with compote, jam, cream, jelly or fruit puree.

Pork

Pork filet mignon with black truffle sauce

Black truffle sauce : crème fraîche and veal stock to which diced black truffles and shallots are added.

Cheeses

Zamorano artesano

Spain. Castile and León. Zamora.
Raw sheep's milk pressed uncooked cheese.
Ripening : 100 days minimum.