MaSa Redux in B/B: Food not quite as shocking as last week; service in both senses lacking.

MaSa in Boulogne-Billancourt is a place I promised Colette and the French friend I've known the longest (43 years) we'd all go to.  The "menu" was much the same as a week ago with some minor revisions.

 

 

 

First-off came their great bread with zippy, zingy olive oil and an amuse gueule of an asparagus soup with a bubbly strawberry emulsion on top, followed by our firsts: ham and eggs (well, sort of) with shaved parmesan and the crab, asparagus, pomegranate seeds, grapefruit, avocado and yogurt yop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then our long time friend had the Black Angus beef with one sauce (last week my dining companion was served two sauces) and Colette and I had beautifully producted and cooked rascasse with most excellent spinach and eggplant.  Now a word about the service.  First there were quite long waits between courses today which was not true a week ago and the wait-staff did not survey the room as they passed through delivering dishes to varous tables.  Indeed, I had to get up from the table to place our order for a second bottle of wine and request salt & pepper, which Colette felt the rascasse needed. (When our friend commented on the inattentive service, she was told it was due to short-staffing).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For dessert we  decided to share the tasty meringue topped with raspberries.  Along with our coffee we were served sesame marshmallows and non-alcoholic "majitos".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the afore-mentioned two bottles of wine (Colette vetoed the first), no bottled water and 3 coffees , our bill was 177.50 E or 118.32 E a couple.