4.2 Le Boudoir, 25, rue du Colisee in the 8th, 0143.59.25.29, closed Saturday lunch and Sundays merited a 6.5 from me when Alice Bardet opened it here in August 2008 after debarking from the Point Bar. Now it's got a new chef (Meilleur Ouvrier etc), a new awning that says bar a vins not brasserie and "concept" of tapas, small plates, etc.
There were a lot of things both on the carte and chalkboard and my friend an I had some trouble choosing.
In the end I ordered the "greque" of vegetables (carrots, fennel, radishes, zucchini, etc.,) and shrimp cooked two ways (battered and not) and thought it not the best of the month, but pretty nice.
Then he had a nice piece of cod on a bed of tasty lentils and I had was was called boeuf bougignon which had the beef and wine sauce below, the veggies above and a puree to the side; quite pleasant butnot gutsy.
As finales we had the creme brulee with Madagascar vanilla and a baba au rhum with the least assertive rum I've had in my life.
The bill, with two Malongo coffees, no bottled water but a bottle of red Bordeaux, was 83.40 E.
Go? My dining partner, a long-time European, thought it was much better than I did, from bread to dishes to coffee; me after the three meals I've had recently at Tintilou, Septime & l'Auberge du 15, can only repeat that it was "very fine, very pleasant, but no sparks flew."
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