A fork is all you’ll need to enjoy the baked Brie ($7.50) at Pâtisserie Descours and Café (1330 Wirt, 713-681-8894). You use it to gently break through the exquisite, handmade puff pastry, which is baked to a golden-brown finish. As you slice through the cheese, it oozes out of its shell onto the bed of mixed greens. The Brie’s mild, almost sweet flavor is accented with thyme, an herb that’s popular among the French. The perfectly round, smooth and creamy serving at Pâtisserie Descours is about the size of a hockey puck, only thicker, and it’s just right for one person.
This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2004.