Maurice — Restaurant in Paris

Considering this may be one of the few French restaurants in Maine, it’s likely a Maine 4 or 5 but overall just an okay place.

We went because my father used to take my mother here years ago.

Our party of 5 had 4 orders of escargot. That was likely the best item we had. It was a bit weird as they serve it with a puff pastry on the top, but no snail shells, yet provide snail tongs… maybe they want you to use to pick up the small dishes they serve it in.

The side Caesar salad was just okay, with way too large chunks of shaved parm on top.

Having had duck only once before, I was encouraged because the server told us how much the other diners loved the duck. It looked like a “half spring” chicken that used to be served at my fathers diner in Ellenville NY. The sauce was okay, but I found it odd that there were mandarin oranges on top, and it tasted like they were the type of mandarin oranges from a can, that sweet flavor of canned mandarin slices. I assumed that there would be slices of oranges, especially for a 34 dish, which, i guess was inexpensive for Maine. Since i have never had Duck at a French restaurant before, maybe that’s how it’s done, but it was not my favorite. I think i would have liked a different entree. My wife had scallops in butter & breadcrumbs, and she really liked it.

One funny thing that happened was that we ordered wine for dinner, a rose I believe by the carafe. The waitress brought to the table a carafe and said that they needed to chill it, so they took it back, and came back with a carafe of wine with the entire top portion of the carafe filled with Ice. Never seen that before.

The disappointment was the French Onion Soup, which I was very excited about. It was just okay. I’ve had amazing onion gratinee at many restaurants, and this was just okay, not very flavorful.

They did have a very interesting dessert menu, and my fellow diners had a pistachio cake that I was told was fantastic.

Overall, it was not terrible, but we did have to drive almost an hour to get to this place. I’d like to give it another shot maybe...

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