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VILLAGE GREEN, RIDGEWOOD, NJ
Hello from New Jersey.
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The house is NOT yet finished, though we are getting closer. Will post pictures soon – I promise!
Last weekend, honey and I went out on a date and ate at “Village Green” in Ridgewood, NJ. It was a 5 course meal. It was, after having lived in France for 3 years, not bad at all!! Of course, in Ridgewood, it’s bring your own booze – so the honey brought a bottle of wine – not from his ‘fridge’ (read = expensive wines) because he couldn’t find his key (!) That’s my honey, you have to roll with the punches (he did find it this week, at the office – phewwwww!!!).My honey had, as a starter, chanterelle mushrooms with frisee salad and I had beets with arugola greens. It was very good. We then ordered the escargots bourguignon – OK, 1) the escargots were in a shell and in the shell was bar-b-queish sauce and on the bottom of the plate was the traditional persillade – no garlic!!! What, escargots, NO garlic. No. That was not our favorite. Either you go western (with an caramelized onion ‘compote’ and forget the not so tasty persillade) or you go French and do a persillade with garlic – NO bar-b-que sauce. For the next course, he had monk fish in a creamy sauce (that was delicious) and I had red snapper in a fresh tarragon-citrus sauce – equally delicious and lighter. We then had our ‘meat’ dish. Honey had the crispy duck AND that was something to write home about. I had the rabbit. It was the ‘special of the day’. I love rabbit, though, I have to say, it was a little dry. My honey ended with a peach crumble and, of course, I had my cheese plate. The cheese plate was very nice.
All in all a very nice restaurant and great service. I would definitely go back.
36 Prospect St.
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
Tel: 201-445-2914
Fax: 201-251-9510
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