New York was literally awash this weekend – would not stop raining. Sunday morning I had plans to meet the girls for manicure, brunch and Barneys. It was not a pretty day: cold, really windy and dreary but if there’s anything that will get me out of the house, it’s food and shopping.
I suggested Bar Boulud near Lincoln Center as I knew my two friends were quite the downtowners and most likely never been. Turns out Bar Boulud has an amazing brunch special. For $28 you get a four course meal! We started with a plate of the award winning headcheese to whet the table’s appetite before our courses came out.
After a cup of coffee and a cheese danish (it’s the first course — you get a choice of pastry with your coffee), I started with the pate grand mere. YUM. This is easily one of my favorite terrines on the menu. It’s made with chicken liver, pork and cognac. It’s as rich as you would think and goes down like really expensive, meat-y butter.

I like to start eating it purely alone with a bit of mustard to cut the richness and eventually move on to slathering atop crusty bread. It is divine and no, I do not leave any leftovers.
Next I had Bar Boulud’s croque monsieur which is essentially a decadent ham and cheese sandwich only the ham is the expensive cured variety and the cheese is gruyere and arrives bubblingly crisp at the edges.

A bite of this can send you into cardiac arrest but hey, I wouldn’t be the Hungry Korean if my stomach couldn’t take it right?
It’s rich and gooey and very very cheesy. I loved that there is heaping amounts of thinly sliced ham entrenched between the bread and cheese.
For the fourth and final course, I had the Island. It is a meringue sitting in a pool of creme anglais (translation, creamy custard gravy). How pretty is this dessert?

The meringue was light and not too sweet, the custard was creamy and very vanilla-ish and those pink sweet pecans added a nice textural crunch to the plate. I really liked this dessert.
Now, THIS deal, you can’t beat with a stick!
Bar Boulud, 1900 Broadway, New York, NY
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