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Convenient to Harvard yard, with its own parking, Lenora (1812 Mass. Ave.) brings exquisite sauces and interesting ingredients to bear on more distinctly French fare. For less adventurous francophiles, Maison Robert (45 School St., Boston) remains true to Europe's haute cuisine. And Autre Chose (1105 Mass. Ave.) serves excellent provincial French dishes at among the more affordable prices in town...
Calls for spirits are the lowest ever at the superdeluxe Ma Maison restaurant in Los Angeles; wine accounts for 80% of sales. Patrons of New York City's most famous saloon, the "21" Club, are rattling the aged bar with their orders for such low-proof and nostalgic concoctions as kir royale--champagne sweetened with a spoonful of French black-currant liqueur. At Elaine's restaurant, an uptown Manhattan hangout favored by the likes of Woody Allen and Michael Caine, the wee-hours drinkers have evaporated; the bar empties "early," around 1 a.m. Commuters on the Long Island Rail Road...
...price: $3), the Bordeaux to search for is Chateau Petrus, which sells out as soon as it is available, at $120 to $150 a bottle. And while many French wines are no cheaper in France than they are in the U.S., one of the top shippers in Bordeaux, the Maison Dubos, reports a steadily increasing number of American customers who buy 200 cases at a time at a cost...
Judging by the popularity of fish in upscale restaurants, the curiosity is justified. Patrick Terrail, owner of Ma Maison, the Los Angeles celebrity haunt, reports that his fish sales are double those of meat. "God forbid that eight years ago I had served a raw fish in lime juice as an appetizer," he says. Today his marinated salmon in lime juice is a big seller on the posh menu...
...slaughterhouse in eastern Paris. A large new "people's opera" is on the drawing boards. Subsidies have kept books relatively cheap and at the same time prevented venerable bookshops from being killed off by discount chain stores. But Lang's free spending, including an almost completed maison des écrivains (House of Writers) with word processors for budding authors, has neither increased literary output nor raised its quality. Lang's approach-that a Renaissance cannot be legislated-has yet to be demonstrated...