6.5 Le Clarisse, 29, rue Surcouf in the 7th, 01.45.50.11.10, open 7/7, (Metro: La Tour-Maubourg) is yet another French place newly chef'd by a Japanese guy. In October 2007, I reviewed it, gave it 3.6 and subtitled the review: "Reaching for a star and….ah….falling." My friend Richard went shortly thereafter and wrote that "Chef Mene is quite clearly headed for Michelin stardom...[which]...is one of his ambitions."
Well, the poor fellow over-reached and crashed and recently was replaced by Sadaki Kajiwara who worked in Japan and here at Kong, Au Bon Accueil and Les Anges. And what a difference.
For an amuse bouche we had two ethereal bites; one of a meaty thing the other fluffed carrot. For firsts, my hostess had the soup of cold petit pois with a scoop of foie gras, something that truly did not taste of liver and I had what they called a tartare of salmon but was the essence and more of such.
While her daurade with veggies was very, very good, I thought my inventive sausage-like wrap of Bresse chicken with apricots was one of the best uses of chicken ever, simply wonderful.
My friend chose the largely chocolate dessert (tarte and ice) with rice pudding which again I thought was quite good but I loved my cooked cherries on top of cream which itself was on top of a moka granite even better.
Our bill, which she picked up based on some fiddle-faddle about paying me back for using my photos on her web-site, for a bottle and glass of wine, no bottled water but two coffees (pretty good but not great bread), was 118 E.
Go? Oh yes sirree Bob.
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