When I ate here with my two food-friends whom we've been coming to Paris with since 1968 all three of us thought that meal was outstanding. Not today with two other food-wise friends and ironically when looking at my prior review I realized many of the dishes had the same names but were totally different. What's happened? Stay tuned.
The three others a table ordered the heirloom tomatoes with chevre and were very disappointed ("bland, nothing special, so"), Colette also had a white gaspacho made with almond milk that had never seen the Spanish border and i had the only winner, a tartare of maigre with a soy-ginger sauce that was quite good.
For mains, we had a cloyingly sweet cod supposedly with red curry, that other than the sweetness, was a big nada, and two of us had the featured special of the day, a BBQ's lacquered duck whose skin was crisp as it should be but so overly basted with soy that its salty content is impelling me to drink water 3 hours after. The saving grace was a bowl of what I would call shrimp fried rice but my Philippine friend said was what any Filipino grandmother (and he) could cook blindfolded.
For dessert we sort of shared a plate a cheese which wasn't bad, a clafoutis of cherries and a tarte of seasonal fruits both of which were nothing to write home about.
With 1 1/2 bottles of a slightly chilled red Loire, one Coca, good bread and three coffees our bill amounted to 88.25 E a couple.
Go? sorry but I'm changing my rec of last month. The wait between firsts and mains was insupportable, the changes in dishes I loved before (maigre & cod) but the chef had tweaked in a negative direction and the general lack of curiousity about our liking of the food, prompts me to say a loud "No."
ahem.
Posted by: adrian | July 13, 2013 at 09:37 AM
So relieved to read this. We went a few weeks ago and were so disappointed that we almost lost our faith in you.
Posted by: Fuffy | July 16, 2013 at 10:26 PM
Well, join Adrian.
Posted by: John Talbott | July 16, 2013 at 10:58 PM