Les Canailles Menilmontant in the 20th: “Pleasant,”my friend from the 20th said, “if I lived nearer, I’d return.”

6.5 Les Canailles Menilmontant, 15,rue des Panoyaux in the 20th, (Metro: Menilmontant), closed weekends, 01.43.58.45.45 is a recently opened offshoot of les Canailles in the 9th which my respected friends all rated more highly than I, but when several good reviewers in town, touted this new "scoundrels", and I wanted a place to eat near my most longstanding French friend, I seized the opportunity.  Given its location, and today’s commemoration of the Bataclan etc. murders, I tried to steer clear of that area, forgetting the need for grieving survivors and relatives, celebrities and security forces to have access to and from.  So I was late.

She had already been served water and an amuse bread of Provençal persuasion that was quite impressive.

For firsts she had an unusual preparation of a usual classic dish of tete de veau while I had a slice of terrine of wild boar that was not puckeringly dry like most in Corsica but quite acceptable.

Then she a delightful quail on a bed of chestnut purée while I proceeded to dig into two pretty thick slices of almost perfectly undercooked veal liver with (I’m told) good mashed potatoes.

We wound up sharing a moelleux of chocolate after a pre-dessert of chocolate truffles.

Our bill, with no bottled water, decent (she said great) bread, a bottle and glass of wine and two coffees, was 107€?  DB’s = 80.7

Go back?  Twer it around the corner for either of us quite definitely.