Ze Kitchen Galerie, coordinates well-known in the 6th, has been open almost a decade and William Ledeuil never ceases to astonish Colette and me. You figure, he's got to change the menu at least four times a year with the seasons and product-availability, but while some things remain forever - wasabi in unlikely places, e.g, desserts, lemon grass all over the place and exotic/Asian vegetables in almost every main course - the rest is kaleidoscopic.
We went again today and were greeted not only with palpable warmth and genuine kindness but a new left side (the entrees) of the carte. In retrospect, we should have ordered six starters, just to push the envelope, but we didn't, and had a lot of fun anyway.
The dish on the upper left was described orally as duck with foie gras and a bouillon but when delivered was announced as "minestrone" - I swear. Some bouillion, some minestrone - lots of veggies for sure and big chunks of foie gras and mushrooms - the dish on the lower right Colette spied as a boullion with asparagus - again, yes, but..... also both white and green asparagus, raddishes, balls of burrata and peas and a soup of intense lemon grass and other flavors.
Then M. LeD sent out two entreactes of raviolis with mushrooms, espilette pepper and goodness knos what else. It was just wonderful.
We went halvsies on the mains:
On the left is the merlan (whiting) with broccoli-cauliflower, cabbage, beans and parsnips and middle is
milk-fed lamb with capers, olives, a very spicy tapenade, kumquats and more veggies.
We finished off the meal with a Meyer lemon ice, two balls of a creamy semifreddo-type-thing, kumquats, noisette sprinkles and a sauce I swear was rhubarb but Colette insists was not because he would never serve such out of season.
We were pleased to see two young families dining at the restaurant..... something one rarely sees at weekday lunches. The youngsters appeared to be enjoying M. Ledeuil's inventive cuisine just as we and our friends always do.
With two coffees, the house filtered water, a supplement for my merlan and a bottle of wine our bill was 109.70 E.
Go again? Indeed, indeedy.
looks like a fabulous dish ...
Posted by: Term Papers | May 05, 2010 at 12:43 PM
mr talbott....i'm not sure if this will "get" to you..but my wife and i have been to paris a few times and will be there the first week of december for 10 days...i'm looking for any recomendations for good bistro type food...as an example paul berts is a favorite....also l' ami jean...any help would be very welcomed...thanxs
ps. price is not important..just good food and wine
Posted by: steve biclett | November 03, 2011 at 01:13 PM