This was only my second visit to Le Galopin on the precious rue Sainte Marthe in the 10th and it was every bit as good if not better than visit #1. Everyone seems to have their knickers in a knot about forced or limited choice "menus" these days but with this level of food at 21 E for 2 courses or 24 E for three, one has to be a rabid, i.e., stricken by rabies, Republican to complain.
Embarrassingly (and I say that beause I wish someone had ordered the orecchiette, egg yolk and ventriche of pork so I could had tried it but, Sigh, it was not to be), we all had the simply scrumptious tempura-like shrimp surrounded by tarama and a beet sauce. How does the chef, Romain Tischenko, who knows where my grandchildren go to school, ex of Ze and Top Chef, do it?
Our seconds were:
-1. cod, boring no?, no, spicy and over the top, with cauliflower and poutargue, and
-2. echines of pork with parsnip and pickled sprouts.
The dessert choices were between a pear-filled cake with ice cream and crumbles of what were supposed to be licorice and verveine/verbena but whose tastes were subtle, mind you, not bad at all; and almost brownie-like pieces of almond-infused chocolate "cake" with (would you believe) piquillos?
A comment: we all, including the master chefesse/expert in all things globally culinary/tough rater of restos in Paris, thought that chef Romain Tischenko had pulled off another simple, good product, incredibly complex and wonderful meal. Long life Romain!
Our bill, with two bottles and one apero glass of wine, no bottled water and three coffees was 153.50 E, thus 76.75 E a couple.
Wonderful read except that "a rabid, i.e., stricken by rabes, Republican" is redundant.
Posted by: Parigi | January 07, 2012 at 07:02 PM