The Table d'Eugene (Sue) which admittedly has been around for a year, was the place within 5 min walking from my place that Colette and I and our friends really found as a breath of fresh air in the otherwise culinarily-challenged quartier.
No more. Not only have the food websites been heralding it as a great, traditional Paris bistro, hotels are giving out its coordinates and tonight on our traditional last night out (after the house was cleaned) before leaving for the States, we went back.
The place is still 60% local, but two French guys came in a cab, a group of Japanese sat nearby (exiting regularly to smoke) and a threesome of Americans spoke only English (luckily both waitfolk do as well).
Colette chose the cod with chorizo shavings and an anchovy/tomato/pepper cup with fluff on top and I had the 7-hour mutton with rice with diced veggies. Both were great for the area but not destination stuff. In fact, I would suggest the mutton be zipped up with harissa or confited lemon.
Colette had room for the deconstructed apricot crumble, which I sampled a bit of and thought was terrific.
With a bottle of wine, no coffee or water, our bill was 67 Euros.
PS. If you want to come, reserve; we called 4 days ago and were told to show before 20h00, unheard of in Paris for a neighborhood place, and by then it was full and they were turning folks away.
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