6.2 La Bodeguita du XVIIème, 14, rue Rennequin in the 17th, 01.47.6317.17 used to be the Club Professionals du Vin, whose wine inventory they inherited, but which they will change over the next few weeks/months. I was invited to lunch with/by two wine critic-writer-geeks and it was some experience. They warned me that it was new (3 weeks), untested, and "just a wine bar" but oh boy!
Coupled with the restaurant/wine bar owner and a winegrower from the base of the Jura, we five blew a whole afternoon on wine, politics, movies and food/wine criticism. (I have no idea what one would pay for such a lesson at OFF, say, but this wound up after 2 bottles and lots of tasting glasses to be just 45 Euros a person).
We started off with bread sticks and a chili (I swear it was truffles) vinegar.
Then we shared a generous platter of chorizo, dried beef and a large galantine of turkey (again I would have guessed rillettes of pork), baby tomatoes and pickles with not at all bad bread.
Next, two of us had a splendid confit de canard with broccoli and salad and a big potato and the odd man out, the andouillette with the same accompaniments.
We finished with two great affinated cheeses (a St Nectaire and Machecoulais).
Go back? I could never get these four dudes to waste an afternoon again, with the likes of me. Seize the day!
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