Café Bizou

We decided to take advantage of the great bargains that are presented from Dine LA Restaurant Week. I may have mentioned this before but I will again. Fixed price lunches and dinners are presented for two weeks by certain restaurants at a very reasonable price. We decided to go to Cafe Bizou, a place we have gone to a few times over the years, for the $16 fixed price lunch which consisted of a choice of three appetizers, three entrees and three desserts. Any drinks are extra.

I chose the meatball soup for my appetizer. I could have had a Caesar salad or baked mushrooms. The soup was a light tomato base with vegetables, pasta and small delicious meatballs. BK chose the same thing and also enjoyed it very much. For my main entrée I chose sesame crusted salmon with potato pancakes and a burgundy wine sauce. The salmon was perfectly done, tender and moist. The potatoes which were not like any I ever had. They were more like mashed potatoes that were lightly fried in a triangular shape and very tasty. There were also mushrooms laid under the salmon and over the potatoes with the sauce decoratively laced around this mound.. It was not only delicious but also beautiful. For dessert I had a trio of sorbet – mango, lemon and raspberry – a perfect ending to a delicious meal.

BK chose shrimp and scallops with black tagallini and mushrooms in a lobster sauce. Black tagallini is a linguini that has been soaked in squid ink. Had B known that before she had eaten most of it and enjoyed it very much, I doubt that she would have ordered this dish. The pasta was covered with many shrimp and scallops. I tasted this and it was fantastic. Flourless chocolate cake was BK’s choice for dessert rather than tiramisu because the cake came with whipped cream. The chocolate cake was a very rich chocolate and came warm. Yum.

Even without a special, Café Bizou is a wonderful place to go. If you order any entrée, you can get soup or salad for $1. The restaurant is located at 14016 Ventura Blvd. in Sherman Oaks.