"Tourmaline is tucked between a movie theater and a funeral home on a quiet stretch of Metropolitan Avenue, just a block from the Jackie Robinson Parkway, and a 20-minute walk from the Forest Hills-71st Avenue subway station. While Forest Hills isn't bereft of good places to eat, it's a not the kind of neighborhood where you'd expect denizens to shell out $250 for dry-aged duck à la presse. Since the restaurant opened last June, though, diners have made the trip,"
"The really show-stopping appetizer is the plaisirs de la mer ($32), a dainty wheel of thinly sliced dayboat scallop carpaccio topped with golden dollops of uni around a hub of caviar (an additional $19). It came with a couple of razor-thin toasts, but I didn't even want to add the crisp. For mains, the delicious wild mushroom and truffle pappardelle ($42) comes as a generous serving of thick noodles in rich soubise sauce, with a heap of truffle grated on top."
Tourmaline sits on Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills, a block from the Jackie Robinson Parkway and a twenty-minute walk from the Forest Hills-71st Avenue subway station. Chef and co-owner Yvan Lemoine and his wife and manager Rebecca Sussman run the restaurant. The dining room is classically chic with white tablecloths, crystal chandeliers, arched mirrors, an open kitchen, exposed brick, and a back garden; servers wheel a Champagne cart to tables. The menu centers on French-American dishes, including a scallop carpaccio with uni and caviar, wild mushroom and truffle pappardelle in soubise sauce, a za'atar-crusted pernil, and desserts like raspberry pavlova and peach-filled kouign-amann. The retro duck à la presse is available with advance planning.
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