Lucques
Every week the chefs at Lucques go to the farmer's market and pick the best fresh vegetables of the season and they plan a menu for their Sunday Supper ($35 a person. About as reasonable as it gets at this trendy but delicious restaurant. Wine is an additional laying down of cash as they don't have the carafe deals many restaurants offer on their prix fixe evenings) .This last Sunday, the Cal-Med restaurant was offering an Asian themed menu. There were concerns that the faire would be too spicy, but everyone enjoyed it; there was a detectable heat to the heirloom tomato salad (garnished with mint, lime and creme fraiche -- a nice take on the usual tomatos with basil dish, with the mint adding its own fresh coolness).
Though people enjoyed the halibut, the pork was a real hit; cooked falling-apart tender and served with black rice and supposedly curried greens, (though we couldn't tell). The dish was a wonderful combination of flavors.
Dessert was something of a disappointment. The locally grown keitt mangos were lovely, but the puff pastery with lime custard reminded us of the colored sprinkle sugar cookies from Weby's (formerly in Studio City for you Westsiders) that we enjoyed so. Not quite food for a more sophisticated palate.
We had a blast though a great place to have interesting food that takes chances -- Lucques Sunday Supper is defintely not a secret, as the joint was packed! So make a res if you want to go.
Lucques 8474 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, CA
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