Background: Ever since he cooked at Savoy's Les Boquinistes in the 6th, then moved next door to establish Ze Kitchen Galerie, then opened KGB (Kitchen Galerie Bis), adjacent, we've watched and eaten his consistently surprising food - in other words, while the dishes change all the time their quality stays at the same high level. His third place, Kitchen Ter(re) - un, bis, ter, got it?, opened a week ago, and we were only slightly surprised to be greeted at the door by his wonderful lieutenants from Ze and himself, all in blue not white.



8.0 Le Kitchen Ter(re), 26, boulevard Saint Germain in the 5th, 01.42.39.47.48, closed Sundays and Mondays, (Metro: Maubert, Cardinal Lemoine) has been touted as a bouillon and pasta place with Asian spices - but don't be fooled, this is Ledeuil doing his Top-of-the-line French food by French chefs using some foreign ingredients - everything from harissa to kimchi. We were greeted terribly warmly and given the almost impossible to decide between menu.

However before that he treated us to coups of Charles Heidsieck champagne and an incredible tomato gaspacho, which they insisted we'd had before at Ze.



Then the four of us ordered the beef tartare, mostarda and soubressade, Galician octopus with a strawberry and Nepal pepper sauce and what were essentially beignets of soft shell crab and shrimp with black sesame. Incredible!



Our mains were a dish of chicken with harissa and confited lime, Iberian pork with kimchi and girolette, and girolles with a Thai pesto and pecorino sauce. Did I taste everything and figure out the tastes?, no: did the cooks among us figure them out?, yes.



We finished off with a strawberry "cappuccino" with pistachio and wasabi, a strawberry, peach and melon sorbet "fyord" and an intense Gianduja chocolate, coffee and miso delight.


Our bill, with 3 3-course and 1 2-course menus, their filtered water and two bottles of red and white Rhones, plus 3 coffees and one tea, was 192€, or 96€ a couple. DB's = 87.8. Annoying music - nil.
Go? Please don't, I want to go back and if you all flood the place, I'll be left outside in the cold with the smokers.