L'Escargot 1903 in Puteaux is another of those places like Pere Lapin, L'Escarbille and all those great places in Levallois-Perret that go unvisited by visitors because they're outside Metro 1-2 Zones. And yet, they won't suffer; today L'Escargot 1903 was jam-packed with locals.
The "menu" is an easy 37 E for a great choice of items and we quickly settled in with a relatively new expat who is, like Hemingway, Baldwin and Fitzgerald, using Paris as a place in which to write her great American novel.
After a startlingly-spicy (for the French) amuse of tapenade on their great bread (toasts), we were served a tasty gaspacho - a good beginning! Colette ordered what was called a presse of sauteed vegetables with burrata, topped with a couple of parmesan strips - and very good it was. Our friend and I had the porchetta (a rollatine) of rabbit on a tabouli-like grain with a splendid lemony sauce. So far so good; I mean
we had our fine bread, nice carafe of water and bottle of wine and good company and lots of waitfolk and, but, still, yet, no main courses appeared for too long a time.
However, I should stop complaining because once they arrived, our mains were wonderful; my lady companions both had the rouget, which was inadequately described on the menu; it was in fact a cocotte of various seafoods and fish a top a paella-like rice with peas. I had the similarly minimalistically-described stuffed tomato - stuffed with cubed veal breast, zucchini, and mushroom on a bed of risotto - delicious!
For desserts we had respectively: an oeuf a la neige with banana/passion sauce, a lemon meringue tarte and a soup of strawberries and orange slices that set each other off perfectly.
Hummm, outside on the terrace was a Weber grill - I wonder what they use that for? Our bill with two bottles of that nice Syrah, no bottled water and three coffees was 168.50 E or 112.33 E a couple.
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