Add an element of French sophisticated to your Easter celebration with an elegant midday meal at L'Espalier. Frank McClelland and co. are serving a five-course menu at the award-winning Boylston Street restaurant. Go all out with the optional wine pairing for an appropriately epic Easter feast.
Price: $95 per person; $163 per person with wines
Amuse Bouche
Sprouted lentil salad with fines herbs, chicken skins and warm sherry vinaigrette
First Course
Quail egg salad with ham and young potatoes
Lobster bisque with tortellini, pickled alliums, and pea tendrils
Spring salad with slow roasted beets, yogurt, almonds, and curried Meyer lemon vinaigrette
Second Course
Island Creek oysters with local asparagus vichyssoise and English peas
L’Espalier signature poke salmon with shaved radishes, turnips, and carrots
Poached Maine halibut with hakurei turnips, fresh radish, whey, and preserved Meyer lemon
Third Course
Grilled Pineland Farms beef sirloin, cocoa nibs, coffee roasted beets,
root vegetable “risotto,” cured olives, and hazelnut
Coq au vin with black truffles, spring vegetables, and foraged mushrooms
Jamison Farms rack of lamb with harissa, young fava beans, mint and garganelli
Cheese
Grand Fromage
Dessert
“Citrus” with lemon-mint marmalade, honey ganache, and sablé breton
White chocolate cremeaux, hibiscus tuille, poached kumquat, and blackberry sorbet
PRICE: $95 per person; $163 per person with wines