Ze Kitchen Galerie, as my loyal readers know, is a place Colette and I, and apparently, William Ledeuil, its starred chef, never tire of. Who knows what's going to be on the menu (American sense), what new stuff he's dreamed up, what new combos and tastes await one?
Why do I call it "the gift that keeps on giving?" Well, a few years ago, we had the opportunity to hear Robert Redford, whoops, Bob Woodward, give a talk in which he called the Nixon tapes "the gift that keeps on giving," meaning that the Presidential crook who declared "I am not a crook" (a denial that proves the case) had left hours of taped evidence that reporters to this day still find fascinating.
In an opposite, positive sense, Ze Kitchen Galerie keeps on producing, and one enters never knowing what to expect and leaves astonished by the creative mind that keeps on creating dishes such as:
- a sea urchin soup with squid, pressed salmon eggs and (something I cannot read)
- wrapped minced milk-fed lamb with Thai herbs and ginger
- crab and shrimp raviolis with Thai pistou (offered to all three of us)
- confited Spanish pork with papaya and coriander
- scallops and clams with ginger and carrots
- pigeon with different colored/tasting heirloom beets and a beet and tamarind sauce
- a mango "cappucino"
Our bill for all this "gifting" with their home-bottled water, two bottles of wine, three coffees (maybe offered too, it's not clear) and super bread was 165 E; ergo 110 E a couple.
Go? For a one-star place in central Paris for this inventiveness, niceness and price-quality, are you kidding?, the gift keeps on giving.
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