Circonstances, 174 rue de Montmartre in the 2nd, 01.42.36.17.05, closed weekends and Monday and Tuesday nights, (Metro: Grands Boulevards,) is a place I ate at in 2013 and loved but never found time to return until one of my Bay Area pals said he'd had a superb meal there last week. So, what did we have to lose? We were eating with the woman in France who knows more about food, drink and tea than anyone except Buddha and even she was impressed, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Once again, all three of us wrestled with what to have, our guest saying "it's between the tartare and pied de cochon, I'll decide when the wait-lady asks me." Food brinksmanship! Well, she went with the superb tartare with terrific bread, Colette had the superb mussels and cepes and I the superb pied de cochon. Wow!
Then our guest had the confited paleron of veal, Colette the wild shrimp, and I the first wild duck (Colvert), of the fall, I've seen and it was truly game because our friend almost lost a crown biting on the buckshot. All were great, although we thought the mashies could have used a tad more butter and Colette thought her shrimp needed more salt.
For dessert, Colette had a lemon "like a tart but in a glass" and our friend a raspberry cheesecake on top of crumble crumbles.
Our bill, with a 12€ supplement for the duck (well worth it), a small bottled bottle of fizzy, one bottle and 25 ml of Bordeaux and two coffees, was 153€ for three or 102€ a couple.
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