Looking around, I noticed one table with a couple of bottles of French Bordeaux and another with a Perrin Châteauneuf-du-Pape. These seemed like awfully fancy wines for the $20 Tuesday night dinner special everybody was eating. But there is something about an inexpensive French restaurant that lets you bring your own wine that stokes cork dorks into a frenzy. Hopefully, Bistro des Amis can continue the BYOB policy even after they get their license.
Bernard Cuillier's desserts are as simple and homespun as the rest of his old-fashioned French cooking. While I like the gâteau Basque and the apple tart, my favorite is the plain old dark chocolate mousse, made with bittersweet chocolate. I like to follow the mousse with a cup of coffee, although I wish they would replace the chemical coffee whitener with real half-and-half.
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Bistro Des Amis
2347 University Blvd.
Houston, TX 77005
Category: Restaurant > French
Region: Kirby-West U
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Lunch special: $10.95
Soup: $4.25
Sandwiches: $6.95-$8.95
Savory crepe: $7
Sweet crepe: $3.50
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The humble atmosphere and inexpensive prices at Bistro des Amis are perfectly suited to the post-holiday doldrums we find ourselves in these days. I'm saying, if you're going to feel blue, you might as well do it in a French restaurant.
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