Parisian Thanksgiving
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| The tarte aux profiteroles from Le Rêve. |
Add a French element to Thanksgiving? Why the heck not? Le Rêve Patisserie and Cafe will craft some exquisite creations for your dessert table – for example, tarte aux pommes (apple tart with an almond cream filling) and tarte aux pacanes et Bourbon (a pecan and brown butter Bourbon tart). The pièce de résistance this year is Le Rêve’s tarte aux profiteroles. And doesn’t it sound sublime – an almond tart shell filled with chocolate diplomat cream, then topped with profiteroles decked out with caramel mousseline, chocolate ganache and caramelized almonds. Oh La La! The patisserie will also offer boxes of pumpkin macarons. Le Rêve is accepting orders between Nov. 1 and Nov. 21, or while supplies last. (7610 Harwood Ave., 414-778-3333)
Fool for Fall
I don’t want to see any more caprese salads. It’s almost November. To be sure, North Star American Bistro has updated its menus for fall. (You won’t see a caprese salad, whew.) Among the starters on the dinner menu – a bruschetta with grilled pear, blue cheese and candied pecans ($7.95); and pan-seared short-rib pot stickers ($9.95). New dinner entrées include shrimp carbonara, coriander-crusted mahi mahi with fennel and crab slaw and Israeli couscous salad, and a pork roulade (rolled with prosciutto, mozzarella, roasted eggplant, tomatoes and basil), $17-95-$22.95. Click here for hours and other restaurant info. (4518 N. Oakland Ave., Shorewood, 414-964-4663; 19115 W. Capitol Dr., Suite 100, Brookfield, 262-754-1515)
Hi to Thai
Before Abu’s Jerusalem of the Gold closed last winter, the tiny East Side Middle Eastern joint had changed the menu (shawarma pizza was an addition) and took out some of the already limited seating. The vacant spot is getting a new ethnic occupant – the Thai restaurant Jow Nai Fouquet. The owner of this in-utero space has been working on the interior for quite some time. Aomjai Nueakaew – don’t ask me to pronounce her name – hopes to open the restaurant on Nov. 7. Her menu will include volcano chicken, Thai currys, and a selection of fish entrées. At this time, Ms. Nueakaew is trying to secure a liquor license. (1978 N. Farwell Ave.)
Not Just a Slice
There are slices of a classic nature at Classic Slice pizza. Like: sausage and cheese, or pepperoni and onion. But this pizzeria with (now) two locations prefers to be more Sybil about things. Nothing wrong with multiple personalities. Classic Slice can build a pizza on a home-made gluten-free crust – that is a 12-inch pizza. (The gluten-free crust is not available by the slice.) And the East Side location offers a whole-wheat crust in any size, as well as by-the-slice. And – another reason to head to the East Side – CS’s North Avenue locale is making habanero drumsticks (hot!) and featuring pasta on the weekend. But fret not, Bay Viewers: These items will reach the KK space sometime soon. Hours: Tues-Sat 11 a.m.-midnight, Sun-Mon 11 a.m.-10 p.m. (2797 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., 414-238-2406; 1609B E. North Ave., 414-270-1880)
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