What delectable dish or presentation do you miss from those restaurants of yore?

[amyb]

In any event no cassoulet or cassolette!

This would be on my most missed list along with Grandma’s, Nona’s, eggplant parmigiana at PaCri, and Maya’s oven roasted cauliflower with truffles served with her veal chop. Phil would probably most miss Maya’s chocolate cake and her tomato and mango salad and Manu’s Tomato Tarte served at Santa Fe.

On just about everyone’s is list The original Hotel Toiny’s Le Gaiac’s signature dish of truffled spaghetti prepared in the Parmesan wheel. There isn’t a time of food reminiscing that this dish is not mentioned,

[JEK]

Amy’s thread elsewhere caused me to channel my inner hawke

[JEK]

[Dennis]

Santa Fe tomato tart.

[amyb]

Amy’s thread elsewhere caused me to channel my inner hawke

My pleasure. Liken it to THE CLASSIC Virginia Woolf title as A POST OF ONE’S OWN .

[GramChop]

Dõ Brazil’s Moqueca.
Harbour Saladerie’s duck
Isle de France’s (duck fat-fried) frites
…I could go on.

[KevinS]

Two dishes - The Cassolette from La Gloriette, and the Grenouilettes from Wall House (and later Le Carré).

[amyb]

Two dishes - The Cassolette from La Gloriette, and the Grenouilettes from Wall House (and later Le Carré).

Yes to both Kevin. The faux frog legs were a treat. I miss seeing frog legs on the menus. Last regular offering was Manu’s at Santa Fe…oh the butter and oh the garlic and oh the fresh sliced baguettes to enjoy sopping up everything until the last drop. Sensational! Jean-Claude of L’Esprit offers them every once in a while as a special. Not traditional sauce Provencal, but still very good. And Fouquet’s offers them off the bone in a basil garlic purée.

[JEK]

Adam served his foie gras with an Austrian sweet wine that was perfect. Poulet de Bresse was often on the menu too - haven’t seen it since.

[Jim Kelly-Evans]

Wall House Duck Confit

[cec1]

Boy oh boy! Doesn’t this menu (& its prices!) carry me back to so many happy years at “my office” . . . and my friendship with Albert & his family. With deference to all of my great restaurant friends today — and amazing offerings from them — the days of La Gloriette & Cocoloba were a unique time on SBH. Not known, IMO, today. Thanks, John, for this flashback,

[le_reve]

I also loved that Tarte aux Tomates at Santa Fé - - so delicious.

I know this sounds pedestrian, but Bar de L'Oublie used to make the most perfect cheeseburger. I looked forward to it on every trip. It was ground fresh, hand formed and always cooked just the way I liked it - almost rare in the middle. Then, a few years ago they changed it, and definitely not for the better. It's a shame.

[cec1]

I also loved that Tarte aux Tomates at Santa Fé - - so delicious.

I know this sounds pedestrian, but Bar de L'Oublie used to make the most perfect cheeseburger. I looked forward to it on every trip. It was ground fresh, hand formed and always cooked just the way I liked it - almost rare in the middle. Then, a few years ago they changed it, and definitely not for the better. It's a shame.

The hamburger issue, Tiffany, brings to mind my “like” of steak tartare. There is a small number of places on SBH that I trust to have ground beef that’s healthy for raw consumption . . . and look forward to its seasoned preparation. A great one is offered at Le Repaire. Right up there with it is Santa Fe. Le Roof Top also “rings the bell.” Sorry that Bar de L’Oublie changed its for ula for your perfect cheeseburger!

[Cwater]

Lobster casserole with rice at Le Flamboyant

[JEK]

Lobster casserole with rice at Le Flamboyant

The same heritage as the lobster cassolette at La Gloriette - both by Albert Balalyn.

[Tiffany]

Wall House chateaubriand

[shihadehs]

Maya’s yogurt soaked Wahoo on skewers

[Risa]

I have been a member for a long time, I usually lurk, so very rarely post on this site...but all of these "memory" threads have me going. There was a dish at Do Brazil that was absolutely delicious, that I've asked restauranteurs in NYC to re-create that no one can. It was a mahi mahi carpaccio w a waffle, and a scoop of herbed coconut cream...I actually found the photo of it. Sublime.

I also loved Maya's Thanksgiving meals - I don't eat turkey and always had dover sole, accompanied by that scoop of mashed squash.

And I miss toes-in-the-sand Boubou's. Always fun, he was such a fixture!

[PeterLynn]

Maya's "Tomate et Mangue" and second Manu's tomato tarte.

[pascaleschmidt]

Langouste Thermidore: Manu ex Santa Fe

[dadto6]

Hi Amy,
I enjoyed the frog legs at L'Esprit on our final dinner of our trip last week. They were delicious!

[Big Dog]

On our first trip circa 2001, on our second night on the island, we were tuned away from Eden Rock because I didn't have a jacket. We happened on Sapotillier with no reservation. Adam put us at the table in front of the kitchen window. I had fois gras with the aforementioned wine. It remains one of my favorite dishes of all time. My bride had the Bresse Chicken and Au gratin potatoes. I have tried to replicate those potatoes many times without approaching success. Our then ten year old son's favorite meal was Manu's Escargot followed by his Coca Cola Ribs and frites. No offense to the Disney people but SB is the happiest place on earth.

[amyb]

I agree with that last sentence!

Our happy place is here.

[cec1]

On our first trip circa 2001, on our second night on the island, we were tuned away from Eden Rock because I didn't have a jacket. . . .

That’s pretty funny . . . wouldn’t happen today!

[amyb]

While dining at Le Toiny I counted two men in sport jackets. Also counted 12 drop dead gorgeously dressed and bejeweled women. (One of whom was accompanied by a chap in sneakers,shorts, a sweatshirt and a baseball cap.)

The sayings TO EACH HIS OWN and ANYTH8NG GOES seem to apply.

[JEK]

That’s pretty funny . . . wouldn’t happen today!

I’ve never heard of any place at anytime with jacket required. Long pants, yes! I took a blue blazer along on our first trip and never wore it once!

[NancySC]

While dining at Le Toiny I counted two men in sport jackets. Also counted 12 drop dead gorgeously dressed and bejeweled women. (One of whom was accompanied by a chap in sneakers,shorts, a sweatshirt and a baseball cap.)

The sayings TO EACH HIS OWN and ANYTH8NG GOES seem to apply.

Amy, I so agree with you about the baseball cap, whether man or woman, & no matter where, leave it in the car or at home. One of my peeves too ! Fine dining at the Inn at Palmetto Bluff in our town of Bluffton, years ago, within view was an otherwise decently dressed 30 something man with his female companion...the maitre d did nothing so that man stood out like the 'elephant in the room' which was elegant Southern then & still is, now a Montage resort, so dinner there might be $17K including the hotel or cottage nights.

[JEK]

Can’t leave the cap at home - de rigueur for a Ti Punch at Le Select!

I had 100 of these made for the 60th. Already packed for the next trip!

[KevinS]

I’ve never heard of any place at anytime with jacket required. Long pants, yes! I took a blue blazer along on our first trip and never wore it once!

Les Castelets claimed to require a jacket. I was the only one there wearing one on the night that we went. That was probably 1989, and I haven’t brought a jacket since.

[Big Dog]

Maybe not exactly on point, but I remember the porch at the bakery in Colombier before the restaurant next door started. We used to love to sit out there with a pastry and coffee. I developed Celiac disease a few years ago so I miss far more than just the porch.