Champagne Christmas Brunch 2013

Celebrate the joys of Christmas with this harmony of French and American cuisine designed by Executive Chef Pierre Jean Laupies. Our Christmas Day Champagne Brunch combines the best of breakfast, lunch and dinner in one magnificent buffet spread.

And this year promises to be no different! Join us on Wednesday, December 25 from 10:30am - 2pm.

Reservations are strongly encouraged and can be made by calling Chez Daniel at 952.888.4447 or online at Open Table.

If you're looking for a great way to break bread with your family and friends on Christmas Day without the hassle of cooking or cleaning up, we hope you'll join us!

Joyeux Noël!

Cirque du Soleil's Return to Bloomington with Amaluna

As only an authentic French restaurant could be, we were terribly excited for Cirque du Soleil's return to Bloomington. We've been hearing all of the buzz surrounding their latest show, Amaluna, and hopefully you were able to catch the show under the Grand Chapiteau in the Mall of America's North Parking Lot. If not, this is your last chance as the circus wraps up its final performances for the Minneapolis leg of their tour this weekend.

Don't miss this opportunity to see a fabulous Cirque show and top the whole evening off with dinner at Chez Daniel.

We can't think of a better way to spend the weekend than by enjoying Cirque du Soleil and an authentic French meal at Chez Daniel! 

"Amaluna invites the audience to a mysterious island governed by goddesses and guided by the cycles of the moon." This mythical fantasy is played out in a series of acts that engage even the wildest of imaginations in a child friendly show that is sure to delight and engage your whole family.

Make sure you have your tickets for Amaluna and your reservations for Chez Daniel for one enchanting and exciting evening you won't soon to forget!


For more information on Amaluna, we invite you to visit Cirque du Soleil's website: CLICK HERE.

Bastille Day - July 14, 2013

This coming Sunday, July 14, marks the annual French celebration, La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration), otherwise known as Bastille Day. Commemorating the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, Bastille Day mainly celebrates the French Revolution and subsequent establishment of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

While Bastille Day in France is quite the event, with parades, fireworks, and more, Minnesota Francophliles can also join in the fun.

The Alliance Français, a Twin Cities French cultural center, will be hosting a Bastille Day celebration this Saturday, July 13, from 4 to midnight at the Hotel Sofitel right here in Bloomington. For more information and a complete schedule of events, feel free to visit their Bastille Day page.

Barbette will also be hosting their annual Bastille Day Block Party this weekend, beginning at 3pm on Sunday, July 14. (Great news, if you wanted to spend all weekend celebrating!) Rain or shine, the event will be held on Irving and Lagoon in Uptown and will feature performances, music, and more! A portion of the proceeds from the event will even be donated to local charity, People Serving People.

However, the best celebration of all will be going down right here, as Mpls. St Paul Magazine's Restaurant Week returns to Chez Daniel on Bastille Day, Sunday, July 14. Celebrate La Fête Nationale in style as you enjoy a three-course dinner at one low price! To view the menus, please CLICK HERE.

Now you're all set to get out and get down in the name of Bastille Day, friends!

Viva La Revolution and Happy Bastille Day!

Restaurant Week - Summer Menu

As we mentioned last week, Mpls. St Paul Magazine's Restaurant Week will be returning to Chez Daniel Sunday, July 14 through Friday, July 19. We could not be more excited, especially now that we've finalized the menu of two-course lunches and three-course dinners for our guests to enjoy!

Lunch — $10 

(Choose either an Entrée and Soup OR an Entrée and Dessert)

Soup (Choose one):

Cream of Mushroom Soup

French Onion Soup

Entrée (Choose one):

• Pot Roast Sandwich - Bacon, Swiss cheese, fried onions, lettuce, tomatoes, French fries
• Chicken Pesto Sandwich - Chicken breast, brie cheese, basil-pesto, roasted tomatoes, French baguette, French fries
• Patty Melt - Sourdough bread, hamburger, tomatoes, fried onions, pepper jack cheese, lettuce, ranch dressing, coleslaw
• Roasted Salmon - Pan seared, risotto, arugula, lemon-garlic vinaigrette
• Chicken Fettuccini - Chicken, broccoli, red peppers, wild mushrooms, alfredo sauce
• Caprese Sandwich - Tandoori bread, turkey, basil, tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, aged balsamic with garden salad
• Strawberry Salad - Mixed greens, strawberries, red onions, dried cherries, chicken breast, feta cheese, balsamic vinaigrette

Dessert (Choose one):

Crème Brûlée

Raspberry Cheese Cake

Apricot-Coconut Bread Pudding

Chocolate Sea Salt-Caramel Mousse

Dinner — $30

Appetizer (Choose one):

• Smoked Salmon Carpaccio - Orange segments, red radicchios, passion fruit vinaigrette, frissee
• Escargot - Wild burgundy snails baked in garlic butter
• Shrimp Boat - Shrimp, chipotle mayo, onions, spices, cucumber
• Strawberry Salad - Mixed greens, gorgonzola, candied pecans, sliced onions, cranberry vinaigrette
• Goat Cheese Salad - Grilled portabella mushroom, potato chips, micro greens, aged balsamic, basil oil
• Scallop Salad - Scallops, potato, sliced truffle, arugula, parmesan, lemon vinaigrette

Entrée (Choose one):

• Artichoke Chicken - Artichokes, sundried tomatoes, shallots, spinach, pine nuts, lemon-oregano sauce
• Salmon-Shrimp Pasta - Shrimp, salmon, roasted red pepper-pesto, oven roasted tomatoes, bowtie pasta, olive oil
• Lamb Chop - Pan-seared, provencal herb-crusted lamb chops, with demi-glaze & house potatoes
• Beef Peppercorn - Sliced N.Y. strip loin, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, brandy peppercorn sauce
• Sea Bass - Pan seared, lemon risotto, oyster-pecan butter
• Salmon - Pan seared, five bean puree, shaved fennel, red radicchios, peppadew peppers, wild citron vinaigrette

Dessert (Choose one):

Crème Brûlée

Raspberry Cheese Cake

Apricot-Coconut Bread Pudding

Chocolate Sea Salt-Caramel Mousse

Don't take our word on it, though, trust your fellow diners! As Cheryl L. shared after dining at Chez Daniel for Restaurant Week in February:

"The service was good, the food delicious and filling. The expansive Restaurant Week menu was the reason we chose Chez Daniel and we were not disappointed. We had a party of 5 and tried all of the appetizers, salads and dessert, all were delicious. The entrees chosen were Lamb Chops, Chicken Fettuccini, Beef Short Rib dish. The lamb and duck were cooked to perfection and the fettuccini and short rib dishes were devoured with delight. Great food and great deal($), I highly recommend it!"

To make your reservations for Chez Daniel's Restaurant Week, please call us at 952.888.4447 or book online at OpenTable.

Restaurant Week is Back at Chez Daniel: July 14-19, 2013

It's that time again... Time to get excited about Mpls. St Paul Magazine's Restaurant Week! Chez Daniel will again be participating for both lunch and dinner. Beginning Sunday, July 14 and running through Friday, July 19, we'll be offering several three-course lunch and dinner options at some great price points.

Mpls. St Paul Magazine touts Restaurant Week as a celebration of:
"The best of Twin Cities dining with a weeks worth of great deals in the Twin Cities trendiest and best restaurants from July 14-19.

Participating restaurants will serve two course lunches for $10-$20 and three-course dinners for $15-$30 (beverage, tax and gratuity not included).

Mpls. St Paul Magazine’s Restaurant Week was started in 2007 in an effort to connect Twin Cities food enthusiasts with the best in Twin Cities dining. Since then, Restaurant Week has become a tradition embraced by Minnesotans.

Mpls. St Paul Magazine’s Restaurant Week continues its successful effort to marry local diners with the best dining and best deals in the Twin Cities. More than 300,000 people have indulged in the best of the Twin Cities local dining scene, for lunch and/or dinner, during Mpls. St Paul Magazine's Restaurant Week history."

We're hard at work developing the lunch and dinner courses for diners, and we're sure these two weeks will fly by. In the meantime, read up on all of the participating restaurants, make your reservations on OpenTable, and plan on entering the Diner of the Day Contest for your chance to win a restaurant gift card from Mpls. St Paul Magazine!

We'll post the menu as soon as it's finalized, as we hope you'll join us for lunch, dinner, or maybe both, since the combinations are endless!

Make your reservations for Chez Daniel's Restaurant Week at 952.888.4447 or online at Open Table. 

Chez Daniel Nominated for "Cleanest Kitchen" in Bloomington!

Once again, Chez Daniel has been nominated for the prestigious honor of "Cleanest Kitchen" in Bloomington in the  17th Annual Diamond Service Awards!

On Sunday, April 14, hospitality, retail, and food service professionals from local Bloomington businesses will flock to the brand new Radisson Blu Mall of America for a night of celebrating the best in the biz. Our team looks forward to this annual event that celebrates their contributions!

The Bloomington CVB (Convention & Visitors Bureau) states:

Providing outstanding customer service is key to ensuring repeat business and growth for the Bloomington Hospitality Industry. The Bloomington Diamond Service Awards are produced by the Bloomington Convention & Visitors Bureau, in partnership with industry representatives. We salute outstanding customer service employees in tourism, hospitality and retail industries who celebrate those who enhance Bloomington's reputation as a world-class visitor destination.

We can't wait for tomorrow night, so we can celebrate all of the nominees, winners, and ultimately their contributions to making Bloomington such a great place to work, play, and live!

Restaurant Week Round-Up

A warm Merci Beaucoup to everyone who joined us for this round of Mpls St Paul Magazine's Restaurant Week. We had a blast seeing all the new faces, recognizing our regulars, and just all-around delighting diners.

What was especially enjoyable was that one of our lucky diners was even selected as Mpls St Paul's Diner of the Day. King Krompicha, our guest on Wednesday, February 27, was selected after she submitted photos of her and her companions enjoying their Chez Daniel Restaurant Week experience to Mpls St Paul Magazine. Not only did she get fame through this experience, but King also got fortune in the form of a $100 Gift Certificate to a participating restaurant!

As has become standard practice, we love sharing some of the rave reviews that we receive for Restaurant Week as our way of acknowledging and thanking both the diners that joined us as well as our team for such a great week.

***** "Kim always does a great job serving us."

***** "wonderful, no one could ask for more."

***** "I went there for Restaurant Week and had a four course meal. We had scallops and escargot for hors d'oeuvres . Both were fantastic! 1st course was a brown pear salad. Entrées were pan seared lamb chops and home made au gratin potatoes. She had the salmon. Both were absolutely amazing. And Crème Brûlée for dessert. I was very impressed!"

***** "The food was so good that I returned the verry next day! GREAT!"

So, if you joined us for Restaurant Week, we thank you! We hope your experience was such that you'll visit us again, maybe even for brunch.

If you haven't already, we encourage you to tell Mpls St Paul Magazine about your Restaurant Week experience. CLICK HERE to take their survey and you could win a $100 Gift Certificate to a Twin Cities Restaurant.

Until next time!

Chez Daniel's Famous Christmas Day Champagne Brunch

Celebrate the joys of Christmas with this harmony of French and American cuisine designed by Executive Chef Pierre Jean Laupies. Our Christmas Day Champagne Brunch combines the best of breakfast, lunch and dinner in one magnificent buffet spread.

And this year promises to be no different! Join us on Tuesday, December 25 from 10:30am - 2pm.
 

Reservations are strongly encouraged and can be made by calling Chez Daniel at 952.888.4447 or online at Open Table.

If you're looking for a great way to break bread with your family and friends on Christmas Day without the hassle of cooking or cleaning up, we hope you'll join us!

Joyeux Noël!

Restaurant Week is Back! October 21 - 26, 2012

The fall edition of Mpls St Paul Magazine's Restaurant Week is just around the corner. You know how much fun we had participating for the first time this past July, so we are just over the moon to get to do it all over again!

Beginning Sunday, October 21 and running through Friday, October 26, we'll be offering several three-course lunch and dinner options at two great price points.

We hope you'll join us for lunch, dinner, or maybe both, since the combinations are endless!

Lunch — $20

Complimentary Non-Alcoholic Beverage
Appetizer (Choose one):

Cream of Mushroom Soup

French Onion Soup

Entrée (Choose one):

Cranberry Chicken Salad - Mixed greens, dried cranberries, red onion, strawberries, gorgonzola cheese, cranberry-port vinaigrette, grilled chicken, and toasted walnuts

Coconut Shrimp Salad - Spinach, red onion, mango, pears, strawberries, pineapple, balsamic- blackberry vinaigrette, candied pecans, and coconut shrimp

Prime Rib Melt - Sautéed onions with provolone cheese, toasted baguette with Au jus and horse radish

Avocado Chicken Melt - Grilled chicken, avocado, pepper jack cheese and roasted red pepper aioli served on sourdough bread

Walleye Sandwich - Canadian walleye beer- battered and fried, served on a toasted bun with creamy tartar sauce

Cranberry Turkey - Sliced turkey, gouda cheese, arugula and cranberry cream cheese, on wild rice bread

Apple Brie Baguette - Grilled chicken, brie & green apples on a baguette

Lobster Ravioli - Wild mushrooms, artichokes, lobster tarragon sauce

Chicken Penne - Toulouse sausage, chicken, tomato cream, mozzarella, balsamic-fennel marinated red peppers, and onions

Chicken Chandelaise - Pan-seared chicken breast, wild mushrooms, prosciutto, none wine cream, mashed potato

Quiche du Jour - Served with straw potatoes, vegetables, and house salad

Dessert (Choose one):

Crème Brulee - Homemade brandied vanilla custard

Profiteroles - Cream puffs filled with vanilla ice cream, topped with hot fudge and raspberry coulis

Chocolate Mousse

Dinner — $30

Hors d'Oeuvres (Choose one):

Escargots - Wild burgundy snails baked in garlic butter

Scallops - Seared sea scallops on potato pancakes with crab, hollandaise sauce and truffles

Pistachio Crusted Brie - Panko and pistachio-crusted French brie with honeycomb, lingonberry sauce, and crostinis

Shrimp Bruschetta - Diced tomato, basil, garlic, butter, crostini, and parmesan

First Course:

House Salad - Mixed greens with walnuts, pickled red cabbage, carrots, and tomato in a tarragon vinaigrette

Entrée (Choose one):

Lobster Ravioli - Lobster ravioli with wild mushrooms, roasted artichokes, and lobster tarragon sauce

Pork Tenderloin - Served with roasted garlic mashed potato and served with apple cranberry sauce

New York Strip - Grilled new York served with porcini mushrooms and demi glaze with house potato

Lamb Chops - Pan-seared, provencal-herb crusted lamb chops with demi-glace & house potato

Filet of Sea Bass - Sea bass with leeks, morel mushrooms & white wine cream sauce with pancetta risotto

Scottish Salmon - Salmon with stone ground mustard cream sauce & tomato coulis with golden jewel grain blend

Roasted Chicken - Served with a wild mushroom risotto cake, spinach, cipollini onions, artichokes, pine nuts and a bleu cheese sauce

Dessert (Choose one):

Crème Brulee - Homemade brandied vanilla custard

Profiteroles - Cream puffs filled with vanilla ice cream, topped with hot fudge and raspberry coulis

Chocolate Mousse

We hope you're just as excited as we are! Join us all next week for Restaurant Week by making your reservations at 952.888.4447 or online at Open Table.

See you next week!

Corporate Client Event | PhotoOpp Bride Edition

This past Thursday (September 6), we had the pleasure of hosting a Corporate Client Event. Now a tradition, we partner with our sister restaurant, Woolley's Steakhouse, as well as our lovely neighbors, the Embassy Suites Minneapolis Airport and the Embassy Suites Bloomington West, in inviting our corporate meeting and event clients to a showcase of some of the best trends and highlights that the industry as well as our properties have to offer.

Our awesome Embassy Weddings' team also lent their expertise in helping display some up-to-the-minute trends as well as to just show off our team's capabilities.

From an Ice Wall that contained small chilled appetizers to a S'mores Station where marshmallow roasting was encouraged, we spared no expense!

                    

We even included an elegant dinner setting and a Sip & Snip non-alcoholic drink bar, where guests could "infuse" their own "elixirs". 

           

 

But the best part of the whole event was the fun we got to have with our clients using the PhotoOpp - Bride Edition app. A photo sharing smartphone app that serves to replace those disposable cameras on each table, the PhotoOpp - Bride Edition app allows guests to snap pictures throughout the event (with a customized app for your occasion). Pictures are then automatically uploaded to the host's online album, where guests can see each other's photos instantly, and they can even be streamed for a live real-time slideshow throughout the event. 

Using the PhotoOpp - Bride Edition app, we encouraged our guests to take funny photos throughout the event. Not only were the photos streamed for a live real-time slideshow throughout the event, but we also had a 3-liter bottle of Perrier Jouët on the line for the guest who snapped the best shot (as voted on, of course). Here are some that were shared:

          

For everyone that attended and helped with the event, our utmost thanks! We are so grateful and lucky to be surrounded by such wonderful clients, team members, vendor partners, and ultimately friends. Without any one of these things, none of the rest would be possible. 

Until next year! 

Bastille Day 2012

Next Saturday, July 14, marks the annual French celebration, La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration), otherwise known as Bastille Day. Commemorating the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, Bastille Day mainly celebrates the French Revolution and subsequent establishment of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

While Bastille Day in France is quite the event, with parades, fireworks, and more, Minnesota Francophliles can also join in the fun.

The Alliance Français, a Twin Cities French cultural center, will be hosting a Bastille Day celebration this Saturday, July 14, from 4 to 10pm at the Sofitel Hotel right here in Bloomington. For more information and a complete schedule of events, feel free to visit their Bastille Day page.

Barbette will also host their annual Bastille Day Block Party next weekend, on Sunday, July 15. Good news, if you wanted to spend all weekend celebrating! Rain or shine, the event will be held on Irving and Lagoon in Uptown and will feature performances, music, and more! A portion of the proceeds from the event will even be donated to local charity, People Serving People.

So, if you want to get out and get down all in the name of Bastille Day, you've got some options. Of course, a tasty meal at Chez Daniel would suffice just fine as well!

Viva La Revolution and Happy Bastille Day, all!

Farmers Market Fare

'Tis the season! The season for the Farmers Market to return, that is! We're so fortunate to live in an area that supports independent growers.

 

The Centennial Lakes Park Farmers Market is getting ready for its third year of offering the community a forum to purchase fresh produce and other items directly from producers. Thursday afternoons from June 14 to September 27, the Farmers Market is held along the walkways outside of Hughes Pavilion from 3 to 7pm.

Beginning in June, you'll be able to peruse the selections of over 30 vendors, finding fresh seasonal produce, honey, jam, salsa, meats, eggs, cheeses, jerky, bread, and more! 

So mark your calendars and get ready. We can't wait to see what culinary masterpieces you'll whip up with your fresh finds!