Andres Bouchee Restaurant & Wine Bar Restaurant Review
Mission St. (Ocean Ave. & 7th) 
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Carmel by the Sea, CA 93921
831-626-7880 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu
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Andres Bouchee Restaurant & Wine Bar is one of our 2012
| Top 10 Monterey/Carmel Wine List Restaurants
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Cuisine
Open
Lunch Wed.-Sun., Dinner nightlyFeatures
- Reservations suggested
- Casual
Wine
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| Formerly Bouchée, Andre’s Bouchée Restaurant & Wine Bar is an example of restaurant reincarnation at its best. Since chef-owner Andre Lemaire and his wife Elizabeth took over the restaurant in 2009, little has changed, at least on the surface. Chef Lemaire, preparing bistro cuisine with California inflections, eschews run-of-the-mill garlic butter for a shallot demi-glace studded with hazelnuts to accompany escargots atop puff pastry. A duo of salmon---salmon tartare tossed with olive oil and shallots and wrapped in smoked salmon---is bathed in a chive-cream sauce laced with lemon. The momentum keeps rolling with the main courses. Local sea bass soaks up the light and bright lime and thyme butter sauce; a juicy, tender veal chop, nicely pink in the middle, is enhanced with a port wine and demi-glace reduction flecked with wild mushrooms. For the denouement, order the coulant aux chocolat et Carambar, chocolate cake oozing a molten chocolate and Carambar (French caramel candy) center, accompanied by a glass of Grenache. Let sommelier Dmitri Ruban guide you through the extensive list of European and Monterey wines. |
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