Frenchie [sic]: This year’s Ze, Spring, Afaria, Bigarrade?; Maybe.

 

7.0 Frenchie, 5, rue du Nil in the 2nd, 01 40 39 96 19, closed Sundays, Mondays and Tuesday lunch, is chef’d by an ex-Jamie Oliver, ex-New York but very French guy and serves only “menus,” which are product-driven, market-available, at lunch it’s 16 for 2 dishes and 19 € for three - dinner menus for 27 or 33 €.

 

We chose the pea soup (with a zing) and heirloom tomatoes which were – isn’t there a synonym for terrific?

 

Then we both had the deconstructed paleron of beef on a bed of fab carrots.

 

I ordered the pannacotta with strawberries and rhubarb and ? candied ginger crisps; simply the best dessert in years.

 

With three coffees and a bottle of their cheapest, no bottled water, the bill was 62.40 €, I jest not. 

 

Go? Am I speaking Urdu or what?