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...before you, as the eels have just escaped the broiler and they sometimes explode with the heat. (Better that they explode under your napkin than in your face, or worse still, your stomach). Once cooled they are a startling and tender delicacy. The bmiled mushrooms ($.90) and broiled ham and artichoke hearts ($1.35) are always delicious. They squid cooked in its ink ($1.00) is exotic, but the black ink has a chalky texture and makes for spooky teeth. Soups, hors d'oeuvres and omlettes are the Iruna's forte: one could make a meal of them alone...
...chicken livers Provencale ($2.25) were tender, cooked in garlic and tomatoes. The omlette Paysanne ($1.75) was golden, faintly liquid on the inside and generously filled with diced vegetables, potatoes and ham. The entrees were preceded by a salad (a trick they couldn't have picked up on the continent) made of rubbery, dog-eared lettuce, a slab of cucumber, and an unripe slice of tomato. The simple vinegar and oil dressing was unpleasantly sweetened with pickle relish...
...light lunch there are quiche, meat pasty and goose liver pate on French rolls. The mustard on the ham and cheese and salami and cheese sandwiches comes from Dijon. Onion soup and hot cocoa are the patisserie's only concessions to winter. As in any French, cafe the crockery is so think that whatever beverage or food is hot, coffee or quiche, becomes lukewarm straight away...
...other Moliere plays). It calls, not just for good actors, but for expert farceurs. The cast at the Loeb is very earnest and energetic, but rarely brings the play to life. The two leads, Ralph Martin as Argan and Melissa Mueller as his saucy, scheming maid Toinette, mug and ham it up endlessly, but it just doesn't make us laugh...
...send you to the cemetery of Ham Duong...