Le Petit Café

Le Petit Café We closed our dinners to general public but we will be happy to host your party. 4pp minimum. email us @ [email protected]

Not familiar with Provincial French cooking? A visit to Le Petit Cafe will reveal a cycling menu of simple, yet classy dishes made primarily using the three key ingredients of French cuisine: wine, butter, and cream! :)

We always offer:
Steak for $19.95
Chicken breast for $13.95
Fish or seafood, usually $15.95
A fourth or fifth special is always available, but with more variety. You could have

a choice of pork, rabbit, lamb, or even beef tongue, among other options. While the dish pattern always remains the same, the variety (and true pleasure!) is in Marina's creative sauces, which have kept customers coming back for years! Here at Le "Pete"--as Patrick will often call it as he bumbles around the dining room--the sauces are really what matter. In fact, sometimes we don't even bother with the meat! Just kidding, of course...we may be quirky, but even we know where to draw the line! The meals are inclusive of a soupe du jour or a green salad served with our house vinaigrette, as well as two family-style sides to complement the main dishes. The sides vary from fried potatoes, quiche, or sauteed veggies or greens. And let's not forget appetizers and desserts! For appetizers we offer phyllo dough cheese pastries or chicken liver paté, and our desserts come in a wide variety, from rich chocolate mousse to custard drenched cakes to summer fruit cobblers!

07/08/2026

Hello,

I hope you all enjoyed your 4th of July weekend.
It was nice seeing many of you and it was especially nice than the rain waited until the end of the parade and, naturally, the end of the Window 😄

Our quiche will be gf with a layer of leeks and one of mushrooms in cream on top.

Our crêpe, one of those summer crêpes with spinach, artichoke hearts, Feta, Chèvre and a touch of sour cream.
Sheep, goat and cow. Let's hope those 3 get along well 😄

This morning, like every morning, I woke up to a phone bombarded by all sorts of advertising but mostly gadgets to make your car ride more pleasant.
You know, holders of all kinds: for coffee, for snacks, for Kkeenex, for the phone.
This morning, though, I saw one I had never seen before: some sort of contraption you place between the seats to prevent small objects from falling in the crack.
And I had to laugh.
Not exactly my concern, I thought. My concerns are more in the line of Will my car make it to the other side of town? 😂

My dessert, a peach crumble in a cup. I don't have too many peaches left thus we'll probably run out a bit too early.
But no worries, I do have some old bread and 2 cinnamon rolls ieft from the 8 Patrick brought me last week (I did my best though) which, soaked in milk (not old) plus a few eggs (fresh as well), will make a most delicious bread pudding to take over.

An All The Usual Suspects.
And one of those Usual Suspects being my Croque Madame, I'd better prepare 4 more: one of our young customers will be back after 2 ½ months through Europe, and the boy can eat!

See you soon! 🥰

I could say these very same words.Except that I came in 1974 😄Read the Apprentice by Jacques Pépin, if you haven't yet, ...
07/05/2026

I could say these very same words.
Except that I came in 1974 😄
Read the Apprentice by Jacques Pépin, if you haven't yet, it is an excellent book.

07/04/2026

Hello,

Happy 4th!
I do not know what to expect today.
It could be busy, it could be slow, it could be raining, it could be....
I cannot find a rhyme...
Snow! They already have 18 inches in Montana and Wyoming, I heard!
Whatever happens, I'm enjoying myself right now sitting here in this still cool morning.
And I will be enjoying myself in the heat of my kitchen! 😄
🥰

07/01/2026

Hello,

Beets one more Saturday and then I promise beets will take a break.
In a gf quiche with potatoes.
Kind of borschty, isn't it?
Then I will have to serve it with sour cream.

The crêpe will be a simple ham and cheese. Jambon-Fromage

You know, still having customers enables me to give away garments or shoes I can no longer wear.
And some I never did.
The truth is that nowadays I think it's so much more important to enjoy desserts.
I missed too many delicious desserts in my younger days and I intend to catch up (funny, as i'm writing this Patrick just walked in with some delicious cinnamon rolls 😂).
Who cares if I can no longer fit in such or such dress! Plenty of beautiful and larger dresses to be had in Bloomington and I particularly like the brand Iguana, sold at Tivoli Fashion on the Square.

So I offered a pair of brand new Sanita clogs to a customer on Saturday night. She was wearing beautiful clogs too, and I thought she would be a good candidate for a free pair.
They were too small for her though, but she said that one of the other women had smaller feet. So I offered them to her but they still felt a little tight.
No worries, she told me, there are many women with small feet in my office and we'll find them a good home.

Indeed, a good home is important for certain things one still cherishes. Having had many lovely women working here, I also shared many garments with them and have been the recipient of many myself.
It makes me happy to know that Cheyenne is wearing my green lamb coat, Kate my boots or Sarah my sweater. And I still enjoy wearing Kayla's or Colin's mom's tops.

So, speaking of desserts , I do not know what I'm gonna prepare on Saturday but I'm pretty sure it will involve peaches.
We hope to see you soon and if we don't, we wish you a good 4th of July weekend.
On my way to catch up on those missed sweet rolls now!

🥰

You can't go wrong with a meal that starts with Brick House Bakery's bread. Can't beet it 😄Thank you, Amity, enjoying it...
06/27/2026

You can't go wrong with a meal that starts with Brick House Bakery's bread.
Can't beet it 😄
Thank you, Amity, enjoying it as we speak 🥰
And thank you all for yet another lovely and fun morning ❤️

06/24/2026

Hello, hello,

I always feel a bit sad after the 21st just because the longest day of the year is behind.
Oh well.
On the other hand, nothing to feel sad about the Window.

This week's crêpe will be laden with fresh beets and just enough bechamel and cheese to keep them together.

The quiche, over a polenta crust again so gf, will be bacon, mushrooms , and a few sweet potatoes.

Dessert, blueberry cake with just a nice scoop of whipped cream (I know what you are thinking: What?!? No custard??)
Peach cake will take over if I run out.
And All The usual Suspects.

By the way, if you're looking for a chiropractor I recommend Kyle True, Kyle has kept us in good shape for more than 10 years. A very positive doctor too who will improve your morale as well as your posture.
He just moved to his new location by the Academy on the west side, and yesterday he mentioned we were his first patients in his new location.
Had I known I would have brought a bottle of Champagne and smashed it against the wall to consecrate the building.
So maybe just Prosecco, come to think of it 😄

A fun week for us ahead. Friends coming for dinner tonight, and more friends coming for lunch on Friday. I hope they all like cold soups because this time of year, that's what I serve to friends and customers!
Cold strawberry, peach or leek soups. All so good and refreshing ❤️

Love you and see you as soon as possible! 🥰

Hello,Beets, beets, beets. And beet greens, I love them, and you'll probably be getting them more often than you should....
06/17/2026

Hello,

Beets, beets, beets. And beet greens, I love them, and you'll probably be getting them more often than you should.
Indeed, the beet will go on (sorry 😄)
This week in a quiche over polenta, thus gf, with caramelized onions. And a few sweet potatoes, just because orange goes so well with purple. I took the picture before I poured the cream to show you the contrast of colors.

The crêpe will be a Carbonara, with bacon then, but this time presented as one of my crêpe cakes.

And dessert, a blueberry cheesecake.

By the way, seven years ago a friend made a few baby blankets for our first grandchild Felix.
There were many blankets and I saved a few since I knew Rachel and Winston would have more children.
There was one I particularly loved and I was saving it for the right baby to come along.
I am a big fan of Babar, the king of elephants, and it had hundreds of little blue elephants.
That baby, a little girl, was born 2 weeks ago and guess what?
She was named Céleste!
Surely you know who Celeste was:
Babar's wife!
Isn't life sometimes just perfect?

🥰

An early morning conversation with Joel.Joel is the artist responsible for those lovely installations all over our town...
06/13/2026

An early morning conversation with Joel.

Joel is the artist responsible for those lovely installations all over our town. Our building has been the recipient of many of his creations, usually cute little Barbie dolls or just their dresses.
I saw him around 7:30 this morning as I was cleaning my stretch of the B- line, and I presumed he had just installed the string of Barbie dresses on my wall.
- No, he said, these have been here since last Saturday.
I was rather impressed that no one had tried to steal them, and I told him so. I added, rather sheepishly, that if I were not the old and wiser Marina I am now, but a younger, much younger Marina and much foolish too, I might have tried to steal one.
- But just one, I said, the one with the cherries.
- Oh, you love cherries? he asked.
- I do, and I would love a cherry dress too!
- Yes, you need a cherry dress! I will be right back, I need to get something in my car.

I did not exactly think that he had a cherry dress for me in his car, but on the other hand if you knew Joel you would not be overly surprised if he did.

He did not come back with a dress, but he came back with a few yards of 2 of the sweetest cherry fabrics!
- Here you.go, he said while putting the fabric in my arms. Now , just look for a seamstress to make a dress for you!
- Would a top do? I asked, thinking I wear pants more often t han dresses. I have become distracted with age, but when it comes to something that really. really interests me , like a cherry dress precisely, I don't lose my train of thoughts.
- A top will do.

A magical morning indeed.
Also thanks to you always patiently waiting in line 🥰
And by the way, next time I complain someone stole my plant, I will try to remember that young and foolish Marina I just mentioned.

Hello.This week's quiche will be a very Greek affair. Gf too.Zucchini, Feta and sun dried tomatoes.I haven't used sun d...
06/10/2026

Hello.

This week's quiche will be a very Greek affair. Gf too.
Zucchini, Feta and sun dried tomatoes.
I haven't used sun dried tomatoes for a long time just because, as I told you before, a few years ago during the Sun Dried Tomato Years, it was almost difficult to find dishes in restaurants without way too many of them.
And I got tired of them.
But I thought it was time to go back to using a few.

And here I am criticizing the omnipresent sun dried tomato as I am myself dealing with my own addiction: saffron.
But I am working at it, and this week you will only find a very light touch of saffron. an idea of saffron, in your oven baked French toast. With puréed mangos.

Nothing Greek about the crêpe:
Pears and Havarti.
And All The Usual Suspects.

And by the way, that's our son and Rachel's new Celeste in her sister Elodie's arms.
It won't be long long before those two play together with our daughter's old Barbie house!

See you soon or as soon as possible 🥰

So many fun kids at the Window, and many of them place their own order now. Usually a chocolate (Nutella) or jam crêpe.A...
06/07/2026

So many fun kids at the Window, and many of them place their own order now. Usually a chocolate (Nutella) or jam crêpe.
And what a creative bunch too!

Samuel brought me 2 origami croissants and 3 origami dresses!
I will hang 2 of them over the Window, next to Joel's fabric dresses.
Joel is not exactly a kid, but he will always be one at heart 🥰
And Samuel's little sister completed the gift with a nice drawing of croissants and crêpes.
Well, one of those très élégantes dresses will travel to Paris with me; I will add it to the local gifts I bought for my sister's birthday!

Every Saturday morning, I also get my own private Show and Tell with Sami's kids, who show me their latest toys or one they particularly like.
Nick's iced tea and lemonade stand next to us was a success. Although when I walked over to get my iced tea, I realized I forgot to wash that dirty window in the back next to their stand.
Oh my… 😪 What an idiot I can be…

Enjoy the rest of your weekend,
and thank you for yet another very entertaining Window! 🥰🥰

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Bloomington, IN
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