My favorite dishes include chicken paprikash and grilled goose liver, ideally served on top of a filet mignon, followed by Gundel Palacsinta: pancakes stuffed with nuts, raisins, and rum, topped with chocolate sauce.
Try the Beef Wellington at Wright's for a contemporary turn on this vintage dish--a filet mignon topped with foie gras, wrapped in puffed pastry and cooked to order.
Still, you don't have to be a food fanatic, or a home chef looking for tips on deboning a filet, to find an evening attuned to the workings of a first-class kitchen to be a performance as lively, intriguing and satisfying as a well-realized work of theatrical art.
"Fire duck breast 26!" hollers one; another sets a filet of Miyazaki beef on fire with a blast of grape seed oil.
"It's more like a real porterhouse with a filet mignon on one side and loin on the other," he said.
He's been using poha to create a flaky crust on a halibut filet.
In his Provence country home, the great-grandson of the founder of Marseille's Olympique soccer club prepares the fish smoked on pine needles or in a filet with a sauce made of capers, anchovies, coriander and hot pepper.
Filet mignon took on a delicious overtone from some foie gras; sirloin steak came with quite ordinary "Whitby Castle Steak Sauce"; double lamb chops proved tender but had a muttony flavor.
When the Jets' sideline erupted as Santonio Holmes rescued them for a second consecutive week, hauling in a 30-yard touchdown pass from Mark Sanchez, they never paused to reflect on the previous 55 minutes, how close they nearly came to supping on an overcooked filet or driving a beaten-up Range Rover.
Instead, he cures his own for two or three days with just whole, skin-on cod filet and kosher salt, changing the water every 16 hours or so.
A pork chop brought to mind a salt lick, and a burger slathered with "special sauce" seemed to pose legitimate issues of copyright infringement (the waitress noted, "We have a Filet-o-Fish on the menu, too").
