5.1 Le Tourbillon, 45, rue Claude Bernard in the 5th, 01.47.07.86.32, has a lunch formula at 16 of a main and dessert, menu-cartes at 24 or 27 € for 2 or 3 dishes respectively and is closed Saturday lunch and Sundays. It entered the city almost a year ago almost unnoticed but since then has been respectfully but not gushingly reviewed.
I went with a great food pal/colleague who lives not far away altho' it was my call not hers. We looked at the formula (lamb curry or sea trout and chocolate or a compote dessert) and headed for the carte.
She started with a most intriguing looking tartare of salmon and I had wonderful tempured gambas with a salad liberally laced with morsels of mango.
Now I have to back up a bit before describing our plats. For the past two days I've been trying to solve an electric-briccolage problem that occupied almost all my waking non-eating time and was also both frustrating and incredibly boring to describe, so I wont. But I'll remind you of an essay on Paul Bocuse I reposted last week where I quoted him saying that “A couple, driving up from Lyon, who have just had a violent argument, cannot possibly appreciate their subsequent meal, no matter how good.” And maybe this explains my blah reaction to our mains. I was frazzled.
Madame's rumsteak looks great doesn't it? It was, and the South-East Asian pepper sauce was a perfect dipping sauce.
My cote de veau looks equally well cooked and presented and was exactly as I ordered it she announced, but actually was more cooked, making it somewhat dry, although the fat and perigord sauce almost compensated; but it was not WOW! as veal usually is for me and the potatoes were less than average.
We had no desserts, but I had a coffee and with the 1/2 of wine and 1/2 of Chateldon as well as the supplement of 5E for the veal (5E?) our bill was 73 E.
Go back? Humm, while she may,being a neighbor, I will not go so many clicks from home.
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