Le Petit Varenne in the 7th: Life is short, eat dessert first.

Le Petit Varenne has been open for a short time and it already has attracted a great following from the staff in the ministries that surround it.

I was in the mood for some sausage and these razor-thin cuts accompanied by tiny picked veggies were just the thing; meanwhile our guest had the raviolis with coques and razor clams.  For mains, Colette had a delicious merlu with "venerable" black rice while our friend and I both had the "pore" of beef with red onion.  For dessert we all shared the chocolate three ways - called simply Le Chocolat - on the menu - delicious.

With a bottle of wine, no bottled water and 3 espressos, our bill was 145 E or 92.66 E a couple.