TGIM: Jeune et Jolie serving up special Monday menu

Carlsbad's Jeune et Jolie always serves up dishes that are anything but ordinary.

Start your week of right with a three-course, fixed-price special at Jeune et Jolie, Carlsbad’s charmingly chic, new bistro

San Diego Union-Tribune

Aug. 8, 2019 10:27 AM PT

There’s nothing ordinary about a meal at Jeune et Jolie, the chic and charming nouvelle French restaurant in Carlsbad that’s on everyone’s short list for best new restaurant of the year.

But chef Andrew Bachelier says he wants redefine mundane Monday nights by offering a three-course, L’Ordinaire prix fixe menu.

Every week will bring new choices for a starter, entrée and dessert, for a fixed $35 per person. An optional wine pairing can be added for an additional $15.

Sounds très extraordinaire to us.

Jeune et Jolie L’Ordinaire Prix Fixe Menu
Mondays, 5-10 p.m. 2659 State St., Carlsbad. $35 for three courses; optional wine pairing $15. (760) 637-5266. jeune-jolie.com

With its contemporary nouvelle French cuisine, Jeune et Jolie is leading Carslbad's burgeoning dining scene.

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Michele Parente

Michele Parente is the Dining, Wine + Lifestyle reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Her areas of expertise include the Valle de Guadalupe wine region, fashion, television, women’s issues and coverage of aging, such as the impact of Alzheimer’s and dementia and family caregiving. Michele is the former Sunday and features editor, where she oversaw profiles, special projects, such as the Legacy of WWII and in-depth reports on a variety of topics. She joined the U-T in 2003, supervising coverage areas that have included features, fashion, TV, Food, Consumer Health and Arts & Entertainment. Previously, Michele was the assistant features editor at The Oregonian, in Portland, as well as the Portland City Hall reporter. She spent 10 years at New York Newsday as a reporter on the crime, education, state legislature and New York City Hall beats. She was part of a team that won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting. A native New Yorker, Michele received her B.A. in political science and Italian Literature at UC Berkeley. In 1980, she studied at L’Università di Urbino, in Italy. One of her life’s goals is to make her way through each of the world’s great wine regions.