Lavendou Bistro Provençal sent word this week asking its guests to save room for dessert. Anyone who has eaten there over the years probably didn’t need the reminder. The dessert list at Lavendou is longer than a lot of restaurants’ entire menus, and most of it hasn’t changed in years, which is exactly how the regulars like it.
Pascal Cayet has been cooking French food in Dallas since the 1980s. He came up in Paris kitchens, ran Chez Gérard for years, and has kept Lavendou going on Preston Road long enough that it has become a standing birthday and anniversary spot for a lot of North Dallas families. The room still has its blue and yellow Provençal fabrics, brick arches and dried lavender, and the kitchen still turns out the lighter cooking of southern France. CraveDFW sat down to a full dinner there a couple of years back, and the desserts were the part of the night that stuck.
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