Le Gaigne is a place Colette and I have really grown to like in a special way. Today we took our fine friends from downstairs to a place we "fond," in an ironic reversal, because they used to be our culinary food-finders here.
The two of them ordered the monkfish with cabbage two ways (choucroute and green) and bacon-y sausage; a dish that he declared the best thing he's had in the past two weeks. Wouldn't you know the pix turns out blurry and ever the great God Photoshop cannot focus it. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
They started us off with an amuse bouche of a quail egg nicely offset or vice versa by shredded/lumped herring.
The visiting couple, who in an additional irony, have had their pied a terre here longer than we, both had carpaccios of scallops surrounded by leeks and I had one of the best dishes of the season as well - two types of mushrooms, one type - trumpets of death.
In addition to the "visiting couple's" "best of the year dish," the lotte, I had a wonderful tranche of perfectly cooked veal leg muscle with spinach and salsify, a guest from Northern France had great looking cod on mushrooms and Colette had a coucou de Rennes, prepared three ways - in a corn sauce, with Jerusalem artichoke, and a roasted leg.
Dor dessert, M. P. ordered a moelleux of chocolate which he graciously shared with the table.
Our bill, including one Corsican water, two bottles of wine and five coffees worked out to 99.40 E per couple
Go? Indeed - but recall that it's now it's closed Sundays and Mondays but is open Christmas and New Year's Eves at 130 E pp.
Thank you John for this other restaurant recommendation on Paris. I just came from selecting Spring as one table to try. Le Gaigne too is added to my Parisian eat-list. Good to see all those new ventures of interest in Paris.
Posted by: S Lloyd | November 28, 2010 at 05:11 AM