LE BISTRO REVISITED

Recently we had occasion to visit one of our most fave restaurants: Le Bistro, in Great Neck, NY. This up-scale restaurant never lets us down. The food there is always most delish, well presented and served, and the wait staff is attentive and excellent.

For starters, how can you hate a place where you can walk in and speak to the Maitre D’ in French? Not only the Maitre D’ speaks French, but so, too, the wait staff. Hey, after all, it bills itself as a French Steak House!

We were a group of three, and we all ate quite well for $175. True, we did not have wine nor dessert, but we were so full we didn’t have to eat until a few days later!!

For appetizers we had: grilled portobello mushrooms over greens- a huge plate of grilled ‘shrooms delicately grilled with a nice mix of well chosen spices; merguez- Moroccan lamb sausages over couscous, delightfully spicy and tasty; sweetbreads in a wine sauce with mushrooms and onions. A huge plate of the biggest and most delicious sweetbreads we have ever had, was smothered in the most incredible wine sauce. The ‘shrooms and onions were a nice taste- nicely offsetting the sweetbreads. Truth be told, we could have called it quits right then- the portion was that big.

Dinner was tournados of beef (from the eye of the rib, two small tournados of incredibly tender meat) served with fries, a boneless 16 oz. steak cooked to perfection served with a salad of greens, and a buffalo chop served with fries. When the huge piece of buffalo (18 ounces) was served, the recipient looked up and said, “Does this remind anyone else of the Flintstones?”

Each of us got his meat cooked just as we requested. The meat was excellent. The restaurant dry roasts their meat, and they obviously choose their meat quite well.

None of us had room for dessert, but we did finish with a cup of sweet mint tea.

Dinner took just over two hours, and was filled with good conversation and even better food. The restaurant is beautiful, the lights dim, and the atmosphere most wonderful. Tables are far enough apart to have a private conversation.

Certification is by the OK, and the restaurant is Glatt.

132 Middle Neck Road
Great Neck, NY 11021
(516) 829-4428

They accept all credit cards. Reservations are suggested. Dress is casual, but the food is anything but!
(RJR)