Fleurette in La Jolla, CA

 This is a wonderful restaurant, Fleurette, serving a French Mediterranean cuisine with perfect execution.  We started with sourdough rosemary fougasse with a nice tapenade.  Fougasse is a bread shaped and cut into an open leaf pattern (almost like a pretzel) to increase the crust area.  I especially enjoyed that the tapenade wasn't overly salty.  Most of the specialty cocktails are named to local beach towns and towns in Italy and France.  Mine was delicious, but now I've forgotten the name.

For our main courses, I had the classic, duck a l'Orange.  My friend had the Dover sole Amandine.  We shared a side dish of white asparagus with a béarnaise.  It was all beautifully done!  The menu includes a pasta section with dishes like a sheep's milk ricotta gnocchi and fettuccine with caviar.  

For us, it was a full meal for us and we didn't have room for dessert.

This is a very California-looking restaurant - full of windows, high ceilings and a patio.  There is an open kitchen with decorative copper cookware and an enormous blue evil eye amulet.  It is in a large office park, near the UTC mall, surrounded by glass office building.  You may feel like you are heading into the wrong area!  There is a large parking garage available and they validate parking.  On the weekend, the garage is empty.

This is an expensive restaurant.  In terms of the standard of cooking and the appealing surroundings, I thought it was entirely worth it.  Also, the menu used the word "accoutrements" which I like.  It sounds more elegant than "side dishes".