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WARNING: Do Not Read if you are hungry : )
Le Prieure Saint Gery is one of 14 two-starred Michelin restaurants in Belgium. We have been wanting to try it for awhile, but it is hard to get reservations. They have a special offer which includes dinner, and over night stay in their 6 room B&B, and breakfast.
The meal lasted four hours and it had 13 courses. We selected the flight of wines where the sommelier paired a wine with each main course with a sweet wine for dessert.
This was the pre-pre amuse-bouche. Tomato mousse with mini savory waffle. It is a little dark as I took this first photo without a flash. I was trying to be "cool". The restaurant was very relaxed so I didn't worry about the flash later. My Blog readers needed good photos!
Next course, and one of my favorites (because of the ice cream) – cold asparagus soup topped with parmesan ice cream and a parmesan crisp.
The next two came on a plate together – oyster in a pesto broth and
white fishwith olive tapenade with creme fraiche.
Another amuse-bouche – seafood egg roll with aioli sauce.
Wait, one more amuse-bouche – warm egg salad topped with shrimp and broccoli gelee. This one definitely tasted better than it photographed.
Oh and I can't forget the bread. I could have just eaten this along with the butter. It may have been the best butter we have had. It was from from Brittany France and they are known for their superior butter. Guess where I want to go next?
And finally the real appetizer – a lovely white fish, called Saint-Pierre served with eggplant, grapefruit, saffron and a few other tasty morsels.
Ta-Da – our first main course. Red fish, bouillabaisse with clams, zucchini, arugula pesto, with a to-die-for cream broth.
A palate cleanser, again one of my favorites as it was sweet pea ice cream served with crispy bacon salt and asparagus cream. Doesn't this make your mouth water just reading the description.
The second main course. It had a sauce, but I was so anxious to eat it, I forgot to take the photo after the sauce was poured. Duck breast, duck rillettes, asparagus, wild mushrooms, spring onion and red fruit.
Of course there had to be a cheese course. One of the most beautiful cheese carts we have experienced.
Worthy of three photos.
You are able to select the cheeses you want. But we told him to just make a plate for us, each one different so we could share. We told him small. He gave us each seven cheeses each.
The cheeses were served with a plate of condiments.
I now have no room left. But wait, how could I skip dessert?
I can't : ) Good thing it was small.
The little chocolate one deserves a close up
Perfect……until we discovered this was just the pre-dessert to dessert! Below is dessert, a parade of chocolate. Again, another one that was hard to photograph, but trust me – it was so devine it melted in our mouths.
And believe it or not…..there was a post-dessert, dessert cart with coffee and ICE CREAM!!! Now you know I was completely full as I passed on the dessert cart. Just to make sure you caught that…..the dessert cart had ice cream and I passed on it. I could not find one teeny-tiny spot to put it in. It may have been the first time in my life I skipped ice cream : (
We were very happy that we only had to walk upstairs to go to sleep. Certainly an unforgettable meal!
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