
Rainy Afternoon at MON AMI GABI
February 15th, 2010 admin

[Show as slideshow] On a recent rainy day, ELV decided to while away his time on the almost-never-empty patio of Mon Ami Gabi , with a bottle of Alsatian white wine, some onion soup, a plate of steak frites, and a little chickadee who adopted us because of our penchant for scattering crumbs as we eat. There are a
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