French bistros are about as hip as a dickey. They’ve been around for over two hundred years, and there is nothing fancy about them (or the food they serve). But if you want to do them well, certain formulas must be followed and menus and rules adhered to.
Getting anything but the chicken at Yardbird Southern Table and Bar is like going to Carnevino for the crab cakes.
It’s like going to a Slayer concert for the acoustic set, or a Michael Bay movie for the romantic sub-plot.
The following are soooo five minutes ago:
– Swipes of sauce
– Schmears of sauce
– Dots of sauce
– Squeeze-bottles of sauce
– Under-sauced everything
– Artfully sauced anything
– “Gastrique” anywhere
– Any phrase for a sauce that doesn’t include the word “sauce”