It tenderizes the meat and gives its multi tastes to stews, steak and oyster pie, stuffed pork and roast duck.

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On our lunchtime visit we enjoyed a selection of inventive seasonal salads served with our mains of roast pork chops, delicately flavoured sea bream and minute steak with anchovy and rosemary sauce.

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Particularly good: steak frites with sauce au poivre, coq au vin, roast duckling with wild rice, and tuna filet mignon with roasted beets and greens and white wine caper sauce.

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