点评:Our intended eating venue seemed to be now closed when we went to make a booking so we decided to visit Honorine, again a place we have enjoyed eating as we watched the sun set over the harbour in Deauville. Coincidentally we both chose rump steak frites au poivre with medium being the only upward scale of cooking from slaughterhouse steak. Our meals arrived in dramatic style, each atop a sizeable breadboard with a tiny saucepan of the pepper sauce. Helpfully the rump steak was sliced revealing it pink and bloodied centre, the breadboard groove designed for crumbs served purpose in catching pink and red juices as we attempted to cut the slices into mouth size pieces. We both determinedly chewed and chewed but found that we were unable to reduce the meat to swallow able size and not wishing to attempt swallowing the chunks and risk an exercise in the Heimlich manoeuver we stalled our swallowing processes. A very large dog had arrived with diners at a nearby table and it settled in sprawled fashion in the serving passageway. The dog was not long alone as a further three dogs arrived in close succession. We toyed with tossing our uneaten steak to the canine caravanserai but we decided it might seem impolite to the restaurant and might bring about unwanted changes to the docile dogs behaviour. We paid our bill and then spent a pleasurable moment finishing our glasses of wine, both the anonymous Bordeaux and Rose de Provence were rather good.
翻译:我们去预订的时候,原定的餐厅好像已经关门了,所以我们决定去Honorine餐厅,这也是我们在多维尔港口边欣赏日落边享用美食的餐厅。巧合的是,我们都点了牛臀肉配胡椒炸薯条,五分熟是屠宰场牛排唯一能达到的烹饪程度。我们的餐点以戏剧性的方式送上来,每份都放在一块很大的面包板上,上面还淋着一小锅胡椒酱。幸好牛臀肉被切成了薄片,露出了粉红色、带血的中间部分。面包板上专门设计用来夹面包屑的凹槽,在我们试图把牛排切成适合入口的大小时,正好接住了粉红色和红色的肉汁。我们俩都使劲地嚼啊嚼,却发现怎么也吃不下肉,而且又不想吞下肉块,以免做海姆立克急救法,所以我们就暂停了吞咽。一只大狗和食客们一起来到了附近的餐桌,它四仰八叉地趴在了服务通道里。没过多久,那只狗就独自待在那儿了,因为又有三只狗接连出现。我们本来想把没吃完的牛排扔给狗狗旅馆,但觉得这样对餐厅来说可能不太礼貌,而且可能会让这些温顺的狗狗们的行为发生一些不必要的变化。我们结了账,然后愉快地喝完了各自的葡萄酒,不知名的波尔多葡萄酒和普罗旺斯玫瑰酒都相当不错。