I've learned a lesson this month: Trust your friends when it comes to food recommendations. A few weeks ago, my trust in reporter Tom Loewy led me to Luebbe's , a lovable roadside diner in Andalusia. And last week, I trusted a recommendation from reporter Sarah Watson: Cafe d'Marie in Davenport.
Quad-City Times Reporter Gannon Hanevold I've been wanting to try Cafe d'Marie for a while now. I've seen photos of the place and heard about their menu of mostly light bites and brunch fare. But if anyone has given me the biggest nudge to try this Davenport restaurant, it's Sarah, who I've heard sing the praises of the d'Marie mushroom soup at least a dozen times.
I didn't order the mushroom soup — my apologies, but fungi are the only foods where I draw a line (it's a texture thing) — but I was still grateful that Sarah finally got me to give the cafe a shot. When I'm torn looking at a menu, I almost always look for the most novel order I can find. Something you probably can't get at another restaurant.
I'm not often a cheeseburger-and-fries or chicken tenders kind of diner, though I certainly used to be. On the Cafe d'Marie menu, I pondered a few of their paninis. I sorted through the salads.
But at the top of the page was a list of their signature quiches. I can't say I've ever ordered a quiche at a restaurant before. And after trying the d'Marie quiche with bacon, tomato, spinach and Dubliner cheese, I don't know if I can ever order one again.
The quiche with bacon, tomato, sp.
