Dining Out: Les Folies' food, service impresses visiting chef

Wanting to do full justice to Les Folies, we enlisted the help of a professional - our grandson, the chef.

We figured that not only could he help us evaluate some of the more complex elements of French cuisine, but might even pick up a few pointers for himself. We were right on both counts.

For the benefit of the linguistically impaired, the menu provides full translations of all selections. Which is a help when you're trying to decide between Saucisson chaud sur salade de lentilles and Le Demi Homard Froid a la Parisienne (warm garlic sausage and cold lobster half). If it wasn't for Julia Child, we could hardly manage...