The duck rillettes reappear, this time with shallots, capers and roasted tomatoes ($15), an excellent combination, as are smoky andouille sausage with mushrooms, roasted garlic and Manchego cheese ($11), and slices of tart apple with the fennel-onion jam and Brie ($9).
With a slice of rhubarb tart for dessert.
And she hands me a slice of frangipane tart.
Friday Dinner Pretty much what I ate on Wednesday, except I came home to a slice of spinach tart.
Crisp veal tongue resembled a slice of Bakewell tart but tasted good, with a gribiche of cornichons, shallots and egg whites.
Godard ordered a slice of fruit tart for dessert, and when I ordered an espresso he suggested I try a ristrette instead, a highly concentrated semi-demitasse, which is a local favorite.
But a taste of a rum ball or a slice of lemon tart explains exactly why Nahoum's has been going for over a century, despite the local Jewish population dwindling to just 20 in recent years.
Roz, a wealthy 62-year-old from New York who looks at least 10 years younger, breaks down into girlish giggles as she passes a large slice of sponge tart to her twentysomething daughter, Rachel.
We had dinner at Kapi Kapi, a restaurant with both Costa Rican and Thai influences, where we had a brilliant macadamia-crusted mahi-mahi, sugar cane-skewered prawns and a slice of magnificently tart mandarin lime pie.
Each slice of this tart contains nearly a full bottle of beer.
