Local restaurant Bistro Bordeaux will offer the controversial dish all week in many different preparations, from foie gras poached Alaskan halibut to seared foie gras and chocolate tart.
Love it or hate it, foie gras is coming to Evanston for a week-long festival at Bistro Bordeaux. Pascal Berthoumieux, 38, who owns the French restaurant at 618 Church St., will be featuring the liver of a duck or a goose on all aspects of his menu starting Monday night through next Sunday. Foie gras offerings range from the appetizer course stretching all the way through dessert. Last Thursday, as Berthoumieux was dealing with a flooded basement due to the torrential rains, he explained how foie gras was incorporated into the culture he experienced growing up in the Bordeaux region of France. “It is the local specialty, so it would be hard not to like it,” he said. “You are exposed to it at a very young age.” So Berthoumieux is trying to …
In this series, Evanston Patch solicits your ideas for what to do with empty spaces around town. Today, we’re wondering what you’d like to see move in at two former restaurant sites downtown.
Restaurateur Robert LaPata opened three restaurants in downtown Evanston’s historic Carlson Building in late 2007—and all three closed less than a year later, in summer 2008. Bistro Bordeaux has since moved in to the former site of La Petite Amelia at 618 Church Street, serving up French fare since 2010. Next door, Uber Burger reopened as Nue Uber Burger, but the restaurant appears to have closed once again. Dial the telephone number, and a recorded voice tells you, “the number you have reached has been disconnected or is no longer in service,” while the web address pulls up a blank page. Omaggio, on the other hand, has remained empty for the past four years. Located at 1641 Orrington Ave., the Omaggio space includes deli and party rooms …
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Jim Osburn
12:16 pm on Wednesday, April 24, 2013
All this outrage! Reminds me of the olden days when a trashy novel could achieve success if it was "banned in Boston." more ›