8.5 Le Violin d’Ingres, coordinates well-known, I know, I know, it’s not new, but it has a new 45 € menu-carte (announced in Les Echos last Friday) with 5-5-5 dishes and 4-4 specials.
Three of us, all committed food nuts, ate there this week and it was, in the words of one of us, “bloody wonderful.” Pure back to the future: by that I mean old classic dishes brought up to 2006 standards.
We started with a blini with salmon and caviar, a millefeuille with foie gras and ox tongue, and fois gras with a divine gelée – great start with a great white Graves with which my companions were celebrating; then a palombe with lentils that was pure heaven (I had that), a tete de veau and pied de porc (classic dishes that were cooked modernly to perfection) with a wonderful Pic St Loup; and ending up with two of us having a vanilla soufflé with an incredible salted-caramel sauce and the other poor thing suffering with raspberries with mascarpone.
I am too discrete to mention who else was there that day but they included one three star food critic, one two star chef and several not so bad other food folk (identified by the most branché of us).
The bill I cannot reveal because of my partners’ exuberance and indiscretion but for normal human beings, the addition would be, for a couple - 45x2=90+22=102 €. You gotta problem wi dat for a one star who is simultaneously running three glorious places?
*Originally published in September 2006
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Note that I think the 45 euro menu is gone but the prices are still reasonable for the quality. Expect to pay ~55 euros now but some of the same menu items mentioned in the review still are there including the great souffle...
Posted by: Nick | January 14, 2011 at 06:13 AM