Dish: Checking Out Bonvenu

Published Jan. 14, 2010 at 8:31 p.m.
The first thing you need to know about Bonvenu, the newest restaurant in Carytown, is that it's not French. It's not a French restaurant, the cuisine is not French-inspired and Bonvenu is not a French word. I know; it was news to me too. Bonvenu means welcome in Esperanto, "a made up language … blended from all the languages of Europe—from Latin to Ukrainian—which has been practiced, in speech and literature for over 100 years." Once you understand that, the rest of the menu makes a whole lot more sense. First, the back story. Owning a restaurant was a life-long...


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