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Right down 17th Street from Washburn's campus is
one of the best restaurants in town, Chez Yasu. Every time I have been there I
am pleased, and the food is always cooked perfectly. The price may be a little
high, but it's worth it because everything is made from fresh ingredients, and made to order.
The food is classical French cuisine. Escargot,
calamari and scallops can all be found on this menu. I ordered the calamari,
and if you are expecting fried calamari, you have another thing coming. They sauté
the squid in a lemon butter cream sauce, with mushrooms and green onion stalks.
The legs were tender while the rings were a little tough but normal for calamari.
The sauce was so good I wanted to drink what was left - but I had to save room
for my entrée.
I ordered the beef medallions and mushrooms in red
wine cream sauce, which is served with a salad. The salad is plain and simple,
but good. It consists of romaine lettuce with their special house dressing,
which I couldn't find out exactly what the dressing was. Every person I asked
just simply stated that it was a house-made dressing - not very helpful. It's creamy,
but not as creamy as a Caesar dressing, but it kind of looks like Caesar
dressing. It's got a light flavor of lemon and it pairs nicely with the
romaine.
The beef medallions came cooked
medium, in a delicious red wine sauce, with mushrooms. The thing about French
cuisine is it's heavy in sauces, and if you don't like sauce, you probably
won't like the dish - that being said, this sauce was amazing, just like every
other sauce I have tried there. Every entree comes with the vegetable of the
day, and today was sugar snap peas and baby carrots - a favorite of Chef Yasu.
They are always cooked perfectly as well, and I could eat a whole entree of the
baby carrots, which are glazed in what seems to be brown sugar and butter.
By the time I finished what I
could, I had no interest in dessert – I was full. The dessert menu is low priced and includes crème brulee,
gateau chocolat, napoleon, and gateau fromage. Since I didn’t order any of
these, I am not sure what they are like, but going off the rest of the menu, I
am sure they are delectable. Plus they only cost $3.95 each.
I will definitely be returning to
this restaurant and I recommend it for your romantic night out, or even lunch
with friends or for business meetings.
