Kitchen Ter(re), 26, blvd St-Germaine, 01.42.39.47.48, closed Sundays and Mondays, (Metro: Cardinal Lemoine) has been fingered as the best restaurant of the rentree, one can quibble but it's certainly up there. Today, we returned with an expert chef and her friend and our greeting equaled that given to the Pope, were he in town. The champagne and hugs were nice but to hire the Garde Republicain to come by was a bit much. For the first time this week, my wife said "I don't know what to order." My wife of 56 years, I was stunned. But she got it together and we progressed.
Firsts were marinated raw fish, caviar of lime and ginger, Paimpol beans with green curry, tomato and galanga and Thai bouillon with tiny pieces of eel perched on top of tiny rounds of potato. Superb and so Ledeuil.
Then 3 different pastas (shown to us before, above) with mushrooms, red curry and soubressade; mussels, cuttlefish and parsley; and lacquered quail, kimchi and tamarin.
For dessert we shared two portions of gianduja chocolate, coffee and miso among us.
Our bill with no bottled water save their filtered ones, 2 bottles of a fine Rhone and 4 coffees was 192€ or 96€ a couple. The champagne and Garde Republicain were comp'd.
Aside from the incredible welcome, hugs and attentive service (night and day from yesterday, yes I mean you Millesimes 62), Himself came over and excused himself to eat with his bread and pasta suppliers, hey, be our guests, I give you some pix of the art, so very different from Ze and the pastel colored fan.
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