6.8 Passage 53, 53 Passage des Panoramas in the 2nd, 01 42 33 04 35, closed Sundays, a la carte 38-44 €, serves what Alexandre Cammas of Le Fooding called “half-terroir, half-Japanesy food.” Well, 50% of the staff is Asian and the raw fish is certainly sushi-grade but it could pass for French too.
I went today with my closest food pal who has an unerring eye for the good stuff and she loved it (I did too). The menu on weekdays at lunch consisted (at least yesterday) of many of the things we were offered today for firsts and desserts but the one main was a breast of Bresse chicken (at 19 € I’d certainly go for it).
Off the carte, she ordered two starters; the first, a pea soup that I found less interesting than that at Frenchie but her “signature” veal tartare on a bed of chopped chilled oysters and chives was nickel.
Meanwhile I had the best carpaccio of daurade ever, with a touch of oil, baby tomatoes, teeny halved artichokes and chives, followed by pigeon, very undercooked and also of the highest quality.
We split the cheese/dessert course; the comte and goat with mango confiture were as was/were superb and the pannacotta with litchi and bay (yes bay) as well.
With a bottle of Cahors, 2 Illy coffees and no bottled water our bill was 103.60 €.
Go? Most assuredly, except for the goofy chairs (hey, they call it a restaurant/lounge) it was flawless.
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