Colette and I went back to La Regalade St Honore in the 1st with two dear friends from San Diego we just love eating with and have enjoyed for 33 years, I figure. They've been tracking my "finds" and enjoying them; so they were game (sorry) to have some game from Bruno Doucet's marvellous chalkboard (one entree, sauteed cepes; 4 mains, perdreau, palombe, beef and I forget the other as well as two unwritten items: a foie gras entree and I forget the main).
Madame V. and I had the foie gras which was a lot to finish and Colette and Monsieur G. had the ubiquitous potiron soup with crisy bacon and croutons; both Gold Standard.
Then Madame had the red perdreau with a puree of celery, spinach and a generous slice of sauteed foie gras entier, Monsieur had a merlu with a creamy sauce and Colette and I split one order of perdreau and one of palombe with garlic, thyme, foie gras and wood mushrooms - it would be difficult to pick a winner among the three.
We finished up with Madame having the roasted figs, Colette having the souffle Grand Marnier and Monsieur and I having the chocolate praline two ways with a creme anglaise (just like my French "Mother" made in the summer of 1953 and which Colette serves on very special occasions to this day.)
With 4 coffees, the Doucet/"tradition Camdeborde"'s terrine of terrine with his great crusty bread, 2 bottles of quite passable wine and the final 4 madeleines our bill per couple was 114.50 E - that's with 33 E in supplements for the game; thus instead of 33 E for three courses, a game feast would be 47-48 E pp, which certainly beats out Gerald Besson et al.)
Go? Need I say more?
PS While La Regelade is on Colette's list of top favorites in Paris, she wishes that the menu were arranged so that one might select two dishes instead of three, as is done in several other fine dining places we so enjoy.
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