Axuria has been our "go-to" Sunday lunch place for quite some months but it didn't deliver today as strongly as before. The amuse of a curried fish soup was terrific as a start.
Our friend "Boston B." was in town and he and I both started off with a super risotto with morilles with a mop-every-drop-up sauce and I thought we were onto another good 3 hours.
Colette had the bar, our pal the tuna with a caramelized glaze and I the St. Pierre. None of us uttered words of praise, indeed, Colette said "Let's give it a rest," B. "Let me be frank and specific" and I thought to myself "How can a fish place fall off the high cliff so badly?" (Colette wondered if there were both a new front room staff and a kitchen equipe.)
I had decided when our orders were taken to not have dessert but the two of them proceeded with a Grand Marnier souffle ("It was not as good as the last two times") and a "douceur" of agrumes from whose orderer no "ooh's or aah's" were uttered.
With a bottle of fine Languedoc, a big Badoit and 3 coffees, our bill was about 91.06 E a couple.
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