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La Bicyclette - A rustic French
restaurant in downtown Carmel
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"It doesn´t get much more charming than the Georis wine family´s tiny rustic French eatery. Choose from four entrees nightly – the roasted chicken is French comfort food defined – and then serve yourself from generous platters of salade Dijonnaise and a bottomless terrine of the chef´s soup. Glasses of house wine made just for La Bicyclette put the experience over the top."
"...the dinner menu listed roasted free- range chicken with rose- mary and thyme, fettuccine with oyster mushrooms, braised kurobuta pork short ribs with cumin and rosemary, pan roasted Pacific rock cod with citrus-sorrel beurre blanc, and filet mignon with gorgonzola sauce. Dinners also include antipasto salad and a copper terrine of soup."
"The vintage bicycle parked on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant is functional as well as ornamental. It’s used by a server or greeter when a patron orders a wine from the impressively large wine list shared with the mothership Casanova Restaurant. Although La Bicyclette has a lesser list of reasonably priced wines which are stored at the restaurant, it is Casanova’s extensive wine cellar of more costly wines that are sometimes ordered at La Bicyclette, necessitating a swift bike ride to the Fifth Avenue-at-Mission restaurant. A padded wine cozy in the old-fashioned bike basket protects the wine in transport."
(Quoted from a restaurant review in the Monterey Herald)
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