I went to the Brasserie St Maurice in Annecy years ago and on approaching it with an old dear friend today, after we'd been closing day'd out of Pere Bise & the Belvedere and locked out of the Super Panorama and after he'd rejected anther place on the same square, said - "let's go, my memory of it is it was not bad." Astounding for an old guy to have remembered correctly; indeed, I just found my 2004 post and I said it was "not bad."
There were two nicely priced menus, one forced the other 2-2-2 and we each took one.
My friend started with what were essentially vegetable egg rolls and I had salmon rillettes; both of which came with a nicely dressed salad abnd both of which were pretty darn good.
Then he had the lake trout, which looked and tasted like salmon but so what? and I had a jambonette of pigeon; both of which came with superb, best ever I've had polenta like corn bread and both of which were quite good.
For finales he got the cheese with a pear puree and I a chocolate "soup" with fresh fruit; once again all was well.
Our bill, which he kindly paid for, supposedly in return for my picking him up at the airport this morning and driving down from Geneva, with a bottle of nice Cotes du Rhone, terrific bread, two coffees and no bottled water, was 74 E.
