L’Eiffel Creperie
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on October 20, 2009
in dinner out,family
Today was quite an exciting day! First, at 12:07 p.m, my friend Heidi gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Quinlan! He’s 8 lbs and 21 inches, and apparently has a full head of red curly hair! Hopefully I’ll get to meet him tomorrow!! I love babies…can you tell?
Then, after work, I went to the tailor shop to have my first wedding dress fitting! The woman at the shop was wonderful, and while most people would’ve looked at my dress and said it was “fine”, she’s going to make it PERFECT! Sorry I’m not going to post dress pictures here… but I will show you one of my favorite things: my turquoise wedding shoes!
My sister endured insane traffic to come to my fitting, and we decided to go for an early dinner and a mini shopping trip afterward. After a short trip at Sur la Table (where I avoided spending ANY money!), we decided to go to a new area restaurant, L’Eiffel Bistrot & Creperie.
I’d seen this place a few times before, and the curiosity finally got the best of me. We walked in, and it was quite a bit prettier and more classy than I was anticipating (I don’t know what, exactly, I was expecting)
The tables were set with sweet little plates
Which were soon topped with fresh hot bread and sundried tomato tapenade:
We perused the menu and found that, lo and behold, there was a crepe named for our mom, Mimi!
We started with a caramelized onion and black olive tart:
For my entree, I got the Country crepe, which had fresh spinach, brie, pancetta, onions and mushrooms, as well as a delicious side salad topped with beets and a great vinaigrette:
Leigh’s looks almost the same as mine, but hers had chicken, goat cheese, and ratatouille on the inside:
Both of these were amazingly fresh tasting, delicious, and VERY satisfying. The flavor combo of the spinach, pancetta, and brie was something that I’ll be duplicating at some point soon!
We finished off our meal with a delicious sweet crepe filled with nutella:
Now THAT is something that I will NOT be replicating because I could eat however many there were. This was something that I’ll seriously dream about!
Leigh and I then went on to go shoe shopping (one of my favorite pastimes) as well as stopping in a couple other stores, but no purchases were made!
Have a great night and a happy Hump Day!
Tagged as:
crepes,
dessert,
dinner out,
family,
out,
restaurant,
wedding
{ 16 comments… read them below or add one }
Veryyy pretty shoes! I’m a shoe whore and one of my pet peeves are those ugly white wedding shoes ppl feel they HAVE to get! I love that you went w/ a gorgeous shoe in a gorgeous color!
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I love the wedding shoes. I searched high and low for purple wedding shoes but never did find the ones i wanted. BOOO
I love the crepes. I wish I could eat one now!
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You are going to look just like Cinderella! I LOVE the shoes. And what a fun and adventurous meal out. So glam. I’m in my sweats…with holes in ‘em. Ate leftovers tonight. Awesome.
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seriously CAN NOT believe how soon you shall be SADIE SADIE MARRIED LADY
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LOVE that turquoise shoes!!! It’s one of my fav color other than pink!
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The shoes are goregeous. A crepe filled with Nutella – now that is such decadence to the nth degree!
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Congrats to Heidi and her family!! I love babies as well so have fun meeting him
Your dinner makes me so nostalgic! Crepes are delicious – glad the restaurant was a hit!
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what a fun dinner! I’m glad to hear the fitting went well, and i lOVE the shoes
congrats to Heidi and her family!
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Cute shoes!!
Mmmm crepes. Holy amazing.
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Those shoes are so pretty! I love the color!
The crepes look fantastic! Especially the Nutella one! I can’t keep that stuff around or I risk eating an entire jar with a spoon.
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OMG I’m obsessed with your wedding shoes!
LOVE them!
Everything looks amazing!
Those shoes are totally glam and gorgeous!
Anything with nutella is pretty much amazing, no? What a great little restaurant!
Oh, those crepes!!! Especially the Nutella one!!!! And your shoes are gorgeous!
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hot shoes!!
Those shoes are awesome.
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Hi there,
I know this was a while ago, but I’m curious where you bought those beautiful shoes?!?! I’m looking for something very similar in the same colour for my August 2011 wedding. Thanks so much!
L.