7.5 Le Saint-Joseph, 100 boulevard de la Republique in La Garenne-Colombes, 92250, 01.42.42.64.49, closed Saturday noon, Sundays and Monday nights, has been written up so positively by the "big boys" that I hesitated to go with Colette and two dear friends, one of whom teaches cooking classes in Paris and America, without having tried it myself. Plus, because it's way outside the peripherique, although it is on the Tramway-2 and RER and buses 163 and 164, readers are not likely to go.
Anyway, Colette and I had trouble getting a Chauffeur Privee and called to say we'd be late and the chef's wife, he having been at La Regalade, said in perfect English, "That won't be a problem. Your guests just arrived, I'll tell them." The first thing out of the cooking teacher's mouth when we arrived was "I can't decide what to have, it all looks so good."
But of course, we did decide, to start with 4 different entrees, a soup of petit pois, eggplant (unpictured) boudin noir with calamari strips, and a giant egg with corn sauce. I didn't finish all my boudin noir and they wanted to know what was wrong. "Nothing," I said, "I need to save room."
For mains, the ladies had a lovely rascasse and the gents 8-hour poitrine of pork slices with carrots, delicious.
Finally two folks had very good rice pudding, with me eating all the caramel sauce, and our friend, the panna cotta which she loved. Then came their version of blueberry mini-muffins with coffee.
Our bill, with two bottles of water, two bottles of wine, great bread and 4 coffees, was 93.00€ a couple.
Go back? Oh yes, despite the trip and dripping airconditioner..
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