Student Dinner

This Thursday night, we had our first class dinner. Not only was this the most talked about event ever in the history of our 3.5 week course (well maybe except for the final...), it has also been the most talked about event since. Needless to say, it was expected to be and then proved to be an epic night.

Here's how it goes:

You take a group of 30 people who have been going to school together nearly every day for nearly a month, but only see each other in a less than flattering uniform (with a hairnet...) that cannot be customized at all.

Now add good alcohol, good food, and fancy clothes and you have got a group of 30 people who are now BEST friends. Or maybe that's just me...and everyone else still just enjoys each other's company...

                                        (Group picture before dinner in front of the restaurant)

Anyways, a good time was had by all.

The school covers our dinner (it's in our tuition) at Atelier Maitre Albert, a Guy Savoy restaurant. Apparently, the restaurant is known for it's roast chicken (which we did not eat...), but instead had the following menu:

Apértif Champagne Guy Savoy (Before Dinner Drink- Guy Savoy's Champagne) 

Saumon façon gravelax <céleri-pomme verte> (Raw Salmon with a celery and green apple salad)

Velouté de cocos et son toast pruneau noisette (Creamy Coconut Soup (but I think it had white beans in it too) with a prune and hazlenut toast)

Magret de canard à la broche, gratin dauphinois (Duck breast from a foie gras duck on the spit and Au Gratin Potatoes)

Choco pralin feuilleté et son sorbet cacao (Chocolate Praline Puff and Cocoa Sorbet)

Vins: Sauvignon La Petite Perrière et Bordeaux Cuvee Guy Savoy

It was on the whole a delicious meal (which was definitely helped by the few glasses of champagne and sauvignon blanc that I enjoyed before arriving), but those potatoes. Oh Lord, were they good. They were the keep-em-around-and-marry-em-quick type of good.

One of our Chef's (the one who is in charge of Basic Cuisine) even came! Like the celebrity he is, he barely had time to eat with all of the pictures being taken of him. I of course jumped in a few and then got my own.

(I also am teaching my class how to skinny arm as well as sorority squat)

After dinner, a large group of us headed out to some fun euro-trash club where we danced until 4am. By then, my feet were so sore from standing and dancing in heels for nearly 12 hours that I hobbled home full from a delicious dinner and excited for how much closer and cohesive our class had become. 

Especially the next afternoon when we all saw each other again for class at 12:30pm...it was duck terrine tasting day...

 (Me and one of my really good friends at the club- Look how good she is at the skinny arm!)