French Laundry

[Me.]

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For years I've seen a truck with French Laundry printed on the side and thought I'd love to send my laundry out to them. So far haven't done so but might some day. So I keep hearing all this talk about Gavin Newsom and the French Laundry and I'm thinking what's the big deal if he wants to send his laundry out for a really good cleaning.

Well MSNBC had a reporter from LA Times on who talks faster than comprehension allows and she went on about it each time she was on. Turns out it is a 3 Michelin star restaurant he dined at with other people and his hypocrisy for doing so was on the line. Regarding this I also read they had French windows open but the waitress who took the pic closed them because supposedly the group was too loud. Make of that what you will.

But anyway, there is more than one French laundry around besides the one where you dine. You can buy clothes at a French laundry and you can get your clothes cleaned at a French laundry. Or you can set up your own French laundry.

How to Do Laundry Like the French (Yes, They Do It Better!)

https://www.organized-home.com/posts/how-to-do-laundry-like-french-danielle-postel-vinay/

[leftieNanner]

1. Oh. The French Laundry!

The Gavin Newsom French Laundry.

We had lunch there 25 years ago, and it was one of the most spectacular and memorable meals I have ever eaten.

But I could sure use the other kind of French Laundry to take care of the beautiful damask embroidered dinner napkins that I inherited from my Mom.

[Me.]

2. See

Now if he had just washed his clothes instead of dining out it would've been a lot less aggro for him.

[leftieNanner]

3. (chuckle)

I just had an image in my head of Gavin Newsom in my Mom's kitchen, handwashing and ironing those napkins while watching old Perry Mason reruns! She didn't need a French Laundry because she knew how to do them herself.

[Me.]

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one channel or another. My grandmother would be able to too.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. LUCKY! I want to go there!

Though I'd totally settle for just 'being in Yountville' right about now.

[hibbing]

5. I've wanted to go there

I have relatives that live in that beautiful part of the country, but I was always rather impecunious during the times of my visits. Now that I could afford to eat there, I'm not sure if I would be able to eat everything on a fixed menu, I would be afraid of getting some crocodile hearts in a light balsamic reduction.

Peace

[leftieNanner]

6. Oh goodness!

My husband and I had lunch there 25 years ago and it was incredible. Lunch is less expensive (fewer courses) than dinner but just as lovely. They can accommodate any kind of food issues and for each course you have a selection of dishes to choose. I did not see any crocodile hearts back then. Every dish is too beautiful to eat (but of course you do!) and the flavors are sublime.

I hope you can make a reservation next time you are in Yountville. Ask for the room at the top of the stairs overlooking the garden.

[Dream Girl]

9. FL is my bucket list.

Would love to go. I wonder if it’s still next to impossible to get reservations

[hibbing]

10. Thanks for the info n/t

[Brother Buzz]

7. Um, back in the day, "French Laundry" was code for a non-Chinese owned laundry

And never mind the employed Chinese labor.

[Me.]

11. Now That's Interesting

You just never know with things

[miyazaki]

14. Like French Vanilla Laundry?

[Brother Buzz]

17. Is French Vanilla Laundry anything like a French bath?

The building used to be a bordello. It was a saloon first, but that got shut down when the state enacted a law prohibiting liquor sales 1.5 miles from state institutions; California Veterans Home is just across the dirt road. I often wonder how many of the veterans made a nocturnal sojourn to the establishment, and if there were any French letters involved.

[betsuni]

12. I didn't really know the reason for the recall, but according to news coverage I saw

yesterday, his big sin was eating at the French Laundry without a mask. Evidently this made him a horrible elitist and hypocrite. According to the Republican voters interviewed, he didn't stop homelessness or wildfires either. That's what this whole thing has been about? Alrighty then.

[Me.]

13. Right?

[haele]

15. A reservation for the French Laundry is made a year in advance.

And you can't just walk in and eat there on a whim. There's a maximum amount of people they will serve any one time, and it isn't a large number. It's extremely difficult to get a reservation, you get the day and time they give you.

You're basically eating a dinner at someone's large family room or patio for $250 - $700 a plate, not counting wine. And yes, the food there is considered worth it.

So Newsom was scheduled for a dinner there with friends well before the pandemic first came to the US.

I don't really blame him for not going. I do think he should have gotten ahead of the optics.

Haele

[Me.]

16. You're Right About Optics

though to be fair I don't think he expected that a waitress who worked there would out him. A good lesson for him.