Ok. So let's play a little word game here.
I say "restaurant Edgar Quintet," and you say
"Ceriserie. Is this a trick question?"
"Yes, what else comes to mind?"
"Nothing."
Exactly. If you're looking for food around the Gare Montparnasse, excepting for the excellent Ceriserie, there is nothing, nada, nul. You get produce from the grocery and eat on the train. But no longer.
6.3 Les Fauves, 33, boulevard Edgar Quintet in the 14th, 01.72.38.58.92, open 7/7 has been open but 4 months to rather good reviews and was packed to the rafters today. A lot of folks are either coming off or going to trains, but my genial host, the manager, said especially in the evening, the locals come out. And with good reason. I arrived an hour and 4 minutes late, having been dumped off my bus at Madeleine, because of Gay Pride Day, which I wholeheartedly support, but because the crazy right folks promised a counter demonstration, it prompted a police presence that harked back to 1968. I leapt off the bus to get on the Metro, "sorry, closed." No problem, Chauffeur Prive, aye yie yie, 30 minutes wait and when the charming and patient driver, a woman yet, showed up apologizing, she tried to cross the Seine and every point was policed off, maybe complicating things was Paris's attempt to show they were ready for the Olympic bid by running events along the Seine all day this weekend. Finally we got to the Pont d'Austerlitz and across and I entered the restaurant full of explanations. Sorry we gave your table away, well sure, but. The place was decorated with raw wood that signaled "bio, farm to table." Cool.
Finally I was seated by the window, more about that later. I looked at the carte. Ok, a tomato gaspacho, the first of my season, delicious and cooling. Next a duck magret cooked blue like I requested with a weird tasting sauce (something the chef from the La Maison du Danemark picked up there?). Finished with a cafe gourmand that had the best tiramisu of the year, an ok chocolate and passable fruit salad, nothing special.
My bill, with their house-filtered water, great bread, good coffee and a half-bottle of wine comes to 47€. I also got a terrific digestif, offered, which I guessed was eau de vie de Prune, wrong, a rhum, wow! DB's 66.6-80+.
Return? If going to or coming from Montparnasse, you bet.
Problems? Well yes, there are three zones, outside, outside with the windows fully open and inside. I was at the border of zones 2 and 3 and the cigarette smoke was relentless.
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