In Loving Memory of Thomas Keller's Bouchon

In the three times I dined at Bouchon, I made some of the best memories of my life. What did I have to eat? It doesn't matter.

News of Bouchon's closing came to me from a friend who I made through dining there. She was the server that waited on my mom and I during our first trip to Bouchon in April 2016. At the time I lived in Kansas City and after feeling like I had lived out the same weekend every week for a year, I needed a change. I had never been to California so one morning at work I opened my laptop and bought the plane ticket. Funny how California seems like a court of last resort, holding a vague glittering promise of something better in the sunny days and shadows of its ubiquitous palm trees. ​

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