Six Odeon - Bait and switch, low-ball/high-ball, whatever.

6.0 (food) - 4.0 (price-quality-deception) Six Odeon, 6 rue de l’Odeon in the 6^th, 01.44.41.09.72, closed Sundays and Mondays, was touted by Emmanuel Rubin as running 30-40 € pp and on scoping the three sheets of paper in the window, I was pleased to see that one could have two of the same things offered at night for pricey prices, at lunch for 24 €.  We thus entered this very trendy looking art gallery/restaurant/cantine with no expectations but an open mind. 

 

The menu, as my companion went through it, is a pastiche of traditional, bistrot and dieting-model food that certainly sounded interesting.  We asked about the “menu” – Oh, we just changed everything, it’s now just a goat cheese and foie gras first and beef main.  Whadabout the lunch “menu” outside?  Oh, we just changed that.  So, we soldiered on. 

 

My companion ordered herring with warm potatoes, a bit pricey (15 €) she said but I want potatoes.  Me I ordered a warm Toulouse sausage also with potatoes and salad in a Ball jar, also pricey (15 €) but I too wanted it and didn’t want the Caesar salad, salad with parmesan, etc., alternatives.  Both were very, very good; both were tasty and tart and tangy. 

 

Then she had a gateau Landaise (20 €) and I the beef special with many terrific veggies and aioli (18 €). 

 

If you’re doing the math you can see we’d already easily exceeded the 24 € lunch advertised.  So we went for broke with one shared very fine sort-of moelleux chocolate cake (8 €). 

 

With a bottle of the cheapest wine, a small bottle of water (6 €, which is rubbing it in), and no coffee, our bill was 124 €.  This may have been the most expensive meal of the month and was totally not as advertised. 

 

Go?  For the food, yes; for the deception about the prices, no way.