What a difference!
October 17th, Atar and I came here and both ate well; today I dragged Colette and we both were very disappointed. The first bad indicator was that we were alone for most of our meal.
Then my "raviolis" of lobster were not really raviolis but quenelles, which of itself is no sin, but they didn't dazzle.
I then had a "traditional" cote de veau with pleurottes, wherein the veal needed salt, pepper and Lord knows what else and the sauce was strange, like not-quite-truffles-tasting-but-trying. At this point I had a flash-back to Jadis and the book I'm reading on Careme and thought, is this attempt to recreate the great old recipes the "new" thing?
Colette's bar with a brown sauce was a la vapeur, not my favorite preparation, but even she didn't rave even with its raw endives.
She finished with her classic thermometric gauge, the rice pudding; which she said was "OK" but not gold standard and I had a decent gourmandise. Coffee and wine were also OK.
Bill = 89.90 Euros.
Oh yah - final note: the men's room door wouldn't latch but since the place was still 85% empty, it hardly mattered.
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