September 21, 2018. Lunch – Japonais and French Revolution Dinner – Aubergine

September 21, 2018. Lunch – Japonais and French Revolution
Dinner – Aubergine

We started around 9:30 with a cup of coffee at Starbucks while Aaron ordered an Uber that took us to a flea market that was closed.  So we ubered back to the Natural History Museum.  Aaron left us and returned to the apartment, while we toured the museum. The Natural History Museum is like the Museum of Natural History in New York, most of the exhibits are stuffed animals and fish displayed in dioramas or skeletons grouped in displays, like the skeleton on an elephant beside the skeleton of a Mastodon.

After the Museum we were hungry so we crossed Victoria to the Japonais Restaurant.  I ordered a Soba Noodle bowl with puréed spinach, a seaweed,  pork, and Edamame salad, tempura chips, and soba noodles.  Suzette ordered a box of sushi.  We ate outside the restaurant.  We both enjoyed the light but nutritious lunch.

We then walked next door to French Revolution split a pistachio cream filled éclair and a hazelnut cream filled éclair.  They were each 14 lei, or about $3.50, and Suzette and I shared a coffee with steamed milk for our dessert.

We then walked to the Peasant Folkart Museum, where Suzette did some serious shopping and found a blouse that fit her that was about fifty years old for about $65.

Suzette successfully ubered us back to the apartment by 4:15.

I napped until 6:00 and then showered and shaved.  We walked to Old Town, which is quite large in Bucharest and after a bit found the Aubergine restaurant that Aaron had recommended.  To our pleasant surprise, Aubergine was a Middle Eastern restaurant that featured many eggplant dishes.  We started with eggplant caviar and bread.  We ordered a rose, but sent it back and ordered two Merlots instead.  I ordered duck confit on polenta and Suzette ordered fried sea bass with roasted vegetables.  Both were delicious.  The best thing about Suzette’s dish were the roasted vegetables and especially the roasted leek in consommé.

I also ordered a Mediterranean salad that turned out to be the show stopper with its fresh vine ripe tomatoes, Persian cucumbers, and red onion cubes with a vinegar dressing mixed with chopped Italian broad leaf parsley.

After dinner we walked around Old Town some more and on our way back to the apartment we stopped at Emilia’s Creamery for an ice cream cone for a sweet creamy finish to a lovely evening of food.

Bon Appetit