This is the last Monday of the winter of 2015.
Traditionally known as the unofficial beginning of French-leisure-sport season.
Don’t look that up.
Just pull up a chair at La Gauloise, one of those quintessential veal-wine-and-bar-games French spots, now open in Hudson Square.
What you’ve got here is what you picture when someone says the word “bistro.” The rows of small two-tops lining the walls. The humble varnished surroundings. A menu with circumflexes. But with the addition of a table full of small men on poles playing micro soccer.
What you’re in for is right below this:
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/401512c3c5afaac43d92fba07941ba60.jpg)
Let’s see, there’s this room, with its charming little wine bar and said table.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/dbb1eb41073dfb769b6901a64d2afc55.jpg)
Which looks like this when you’re closer to table.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/1a445cb86be9540df18a065e7c962336.jpg)
Then there’s this room, soon to be enlivened by you and a pre–Film Forum first date.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/bfa7f11343a519219a69d8e23159ff52.jpg)
Frog legs really clean up nice here.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/d7762386b0f73368fbbda2b52be0384b.jpg)
Veal cheek is another meat part available to you.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/4b3978b6c75a1f205226563e51aa18fb.jpg)
And the Armagnac-marmalade-topped marrow of bones. They lack the vegetarian gene here.
The big news, though, is that they’ll soon open a grand outdoor space where there’ll be a pétanque (French bocce ball) brunch.
You remember outdoors, right?
Traditionally known as the unofficial beginning of French-leisure-sport season.
Don’t look that up.
Just pull up a chair at La Gauloise, one of those quintessential veal-wine-and-bar-games French spots, now open in Hudson Square.
What you’ve got here is what you picture when someone says the word “bistro.” The rows of small two-tops lining the walls. The humble varnished surroundings. A menu with circumflexes. But with the addition of a table full of small men on poles playing micro soccer.
What you’re in for is right below this:
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/401512c3c5afaac43d92fba07941ba60.jpg)
Let’s see, there’s this room, with its charming little wine bar and said table.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/dbb1eb41073dfb769b6901a64d2afc55.jpg)
Which looks like this when you’re closer to table.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/1a445cb86be9540df18a065e7c962336.jpg)
Then there’s this room, soon to be enlivened by you and a pre–Film Forum first date.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/bfa7f11343a519219a69d8e23159ff52.jpg)
Frog legs really clean up nice here.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/d7762386b0f73368fbbda2b52be0384b.jpg)
Veal cheek is another meat part available to you.
![](https://static.urbandaddy.com/uploads/assets/image/articles/standard/4b3978b6c75a1f205226563e51aa18fb.jpg)
And the Armagnac-marmalade-topped marrow of bones. They lack the vegetarian gene here.
The big news, though, is that they’ll soon open a grand outdoor space where there’ll be a pétanque (French bocce ball) brunch.
You remember outdoors, right?