A Restaurant Where You Can Order a Dish, Literally

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La Mercerie, the cafe, bakery and restaurant in the furniture and design store Roman and Williams Guild, which opens Thursday, is not exactly the kind of place you associate with takeout.

Marie-Aude Rose — a celebrated Parisian chef who has cooked at Pierre Gagnaire and alongside her husband, Daniel, at their now-closed restaurant, Spring — will serve what she describes as “simple but refined” French food. But after enjoying dishes like vegetables cooked in saffron broth beneath a puff pastry dome or buckwheat crepes with seafood in a sauce Nantua, diners can order something to go: the plates, the napkins, the tableware, the candlesticks and even the tables.

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