Yesterday / Ham & Eggs

Mmmm. Cote Gourmet is the greatest restaurant in Miami? Michy's - pfft. Red Light - eh. Yakko San - so what? Cote gourmet is amazing. We went twice this weekend. On Friday nite B & I had dinner there with Michael. Menus: Escargots for everyone! Yay! As Michael said, "Only this place could make escargots oil that doesn't taste oily." He's right. Sooo yummy. Fresh bread baked on premises, broken up into little crusts and dipped in garlic-y, parsely, non-oily goodness. For entrees, Michael had sweetbreads (sweetbreads! as an entree! this place is so crazy French!), B had flounder and I had lambchops. All of it was incredible. Every sauce was out of this world. We consumed a lot of bread, what with all the dipping and sopping. And still, we had dessert! Are we not men? We are not little girls. We will not be intimidated by your courses and your menus and your accents. Michael: lemon tart, B: apple tart (non, eet eez not a tarte tatin), E: chocolate cakelet. Praise be.

Then yesterday we went again for brunch. Mindblowing. Menus: Eira: pea soup (spelled on the bill pee soup!), daily special burger, Michael: salmon omelet (trying to prove that you can have a salmon omelet where the salmon does not dry out in the cooking. fail.) B: mushroom onion omelet, Andy:

"I'd like the club sandwich."
"Sorree, zee special zan-wish today iz zee burger."
"Oh, ok. Let me look at the menu again."
"Non, non. I will make you a zan-wish. You like some bacon, eh?"
"It's okay, I'll just look at the menu again."
"Non! I vill make you a very special club zanwish!"
"Alright, dude. Do what you gotta do."

The the pea soup was so lovely and green, and I can't even remember it anymore because that burger was the weirdest yummiest burger ever. Picture it: triple-decker. Except instead of buns, it was sliced multi-grain bread. Woah. Ok. This is weird. On the first floor your typical mayo, tomato, lettuce combo. On the second floor -- burger, provolone-ish cheese, grilled onions AND thinly sliced grilled eggplant and zucchini. Um, what? Dude, you just blew my mind! I don't get it. It was awesome though.




photos courtesy of my lovely husband