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Bouchon Bistro $50 Gift Certificate + Two Hardcover Cookbooks by Thomas Keller: Bouchon and Bouchon Bakery

Bouchon Bistro

In October 1998, four years after his successful debut in Napa Valley with The French Laundry, Chef Thomas Keller introduced Bouchon, offering authentic French bistro fare with Keller's unfailing attention to detail in both ingredients and presentation.

Bouchon's seasonal menu and raw bar selections change throughout the year, while staples like roast chicken, leg of lamb, and trout amandine remain as consistent, year-round favorites. The Vin en Carafe program at Bouchon features selections made exclusively for the restaurant from top wineries in Napa Valley and France.

The restaurant is located on Washington Street in Yountville, CA just steps from The French Laundry. Keller enlisted renowned designer Adam D. Tihany to create Bouchon’s interior featuring a French zinc bar, a vibrant mosaic floor, antique light fixtures, and an expansive mural, handpainted by French artist Paulin Paris. Guests may also dine outdoors on Bouchon’s patio, while enjoying a picturesque view of Yountville.

Since its opening, Bouchon has consistently received the highest of accolades from both the food industry and international press. The restaurant has been awarded a one-star rating from the France-based Michelin Guide San Francisco, Bay Area & Wine Country, a three-and-a-half star rating from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, as well as a three star rating from the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Bouchon Bakery

The bakery features a wide selection of artisanal breads and classic desserts, as well as handmade viennoiserie, confections, pastries, tarts, and cookies, as well as sandwiches, all inspired by Chef Thomas Keller's memories of life in France, as well as his own childhood in the United States. The line might be long but their fine-tuned system keeps it moving. 

thomaskeller.com/bouchonbakeryyountville 

Bouchon Bakery by Thomas Keller

The tastes of childhood have always been a touchstone for Thomas Keller. In this dazzling amalgam of American and French baked goods, you'll find recipes for the beloved TKOs and Oh Ohs (Keller's takes on Oreos and Hostess's Ho Hos) and all the French classics he fell in love with as a young chef apprenticing in Paris: the baguettes, the macarons, the mille-feuilles, the tartes aux fruits.

Co-author Sebastien Rouxel, executive pastry chef for the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, has spent years refining techniques through trial and error, and every page offers a new lesson: a trick that assures uniformity, a subtlety that makes for a professional finish, a flash of brilliance that heightens flavor and enhances texture. The deft twists, clearly written recipes and dazzling photographs make perfection inevitable.

Bouchon by Thomas Keller

Steamed mussels with saffron, bourride, trout grenobloise with parsley, lemon, and croutons; steak frites, beef bourguignon, chicken in the pot -- all exquisitely crafted. And those immortal desserts: the tarte tatin, the chocolate mousse, the lemon tart, the profiteroles with chocolate sauce. In Bouchon, you get to experience them in impeccably realized form.

This is a book to cherish, with its alluring mix of recipes and the author's knowledge, warmth and wit: "I find this a hopeful time for the pig," says Keller about our yearning for the flavor that has been bred out of pork. So let your imagination transport you back to the burnished warmth of an old-fashioned French bistro, pull up a stool to the zinc bar or slide into a banquette, and treat yourself to truly great preparations that have not just withstood the vagaries of fashion, but have improved with time. Welcome to Bouchon.

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