5.0 Le Parc aux Cerfs, 50, rue Vavin in the 6th, 01.43.54.87.83 (Metro: Vavin), open 7/7 was written up in L’Express Styles this week and I couldn’t figure out why it and Le Select around the corner were chosen to feature out of all the other possibilities; new Chef, owner, carte? So when I greeted my French friend today I put him up to asking. Nada! Ok. Neither of had been here in years and we regarded the carte as if for the first time.
It’s one of the rare places in town that still encourages one to draw on the place mats and some samples are posted over the coat rack.
Anyway both of us like the sound of the 30€ “menu” with a fennel and spinach leaf salad with fried calamari that had a batter than can only be described as adorable. Then we had weirdly shaped quenelles de brochet on top of chopped mushroom and tiny tough over cooked shrimp. Finally we had the Corsican brebis (I’d read that the owner brings back Corsican products regularly).
Our bill, with a bottle of Iraty and two glasses of Corsican white to go with the cheese, no bottled water but two coffees, was 127€?
Go back? Given the competition I doubt it.
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