Friday, August 8, 2008

Larchmont Village Wine, Spirits & Cheese

while running an errand to the WaMu in Larchmont Village (aka, Larchmont du Village!), we stopped in at the wine and cheese shop. mostly because i had a ravenous craving for some black truffle patè, and was hoping to find some here. i usually go all the way out to the Cheese Shop on Robertson, but who wants to deal with all the traffic and papparazzo?

anyhow, we pull in to a parking spot and my fiancèe exclaims that they have wonderful sandwiches here, so we get in line at the deli counter to place our orders. the lady at the counter was kind enough to let me have a sample of their black truffle patè, and handed it over to me, slathered generously on a sliver of bread taken from what they normally make sandwiches for all the hungry lunch goers. i took one bite of it and was immediately transported back to the time we toured the Cheese Shop on Robertson during my garde mangèr class in cooking school. at that shop i had tasted this wonderful patè and was pleased to find out that they carried the same type! it was smooth and delicious, with hints of dark specks here and there, creating a wonderfully aromatic mosaic of black truffles that were just as tantalizing to taste as smell.

after exclaiming it to be exquisite, i called out, "quarter pound of that, please!"

my fiancee had the sorpresata salmai sandwich, that he graciously shared with me. we also purchased a tub of cornichons, or as i like to call them, "little gherkins" to take along. the sandwich also did not disappoint and was layered with thin slices of sorpresata and mozzarella that was not salty, but delicate and flavorful. there was one problem with the sandwich, as that they were rather generous with the spread on the bread and the delicious sorpresata kept sliding around and out of the sandwich! this is something i must learn to tackle sometime in the future and find the best way to make a sandwich and not have the deli meat slide out.

we also walked around the store for a bit and perused their extensive selection of wines. they had many good things in there, lots of imports and fancy stuff that beats any supermarket. we could have spent the entire afternoon inspecting wine bottles alone, but alas, an empty stomach called out to us to delight with sorpresata. the only disappointing thing about our trip to the Larchmonth Village Wine and Cheese Shop was the cornichons we got that were overly soaked in vinegar and therefore difficult to enjoy for fear of heartburn!

so, come for the patè, sandwiches, and extensive wine selection sure to pique anyone's interest, but pass on the gherkins!

yelp.com link: http://www.yelp.com/biz/larchmont-village-wine-spirits-and-cheese-los-angeles

1 comment:

Unknown said...

the cheese shop at sunset junction is actually really really good.