6.0 Yoshinori, 18, rue Gregoire de Tours in the 6th, 09.84.19.76.05, closed Saturday nights and Sundays, (Metro: Mabillon) opened a bit ago with Chef Yoshinori Morié, ex-Auberge du 15, Petit Verdot at the piano. The outside is pure Zen, the inside cool Zen and the food French Zen. I arrived a few seconds before my pal, just in from NY to a really stunning setting and everyone in this 14 cover ground floor was speaking Japanese, save my friend and I; clearly the word has gotten out.
We struggled over what to order but my invitee settled on a first of marinated cepes with quinoa and salicornes that she thought was soul-less and I thought was ”oh, well....”
Then she had two yuge pieces of perfectly cooked bavette from M. Desnoyer which she deemed was twice as much as she could eat and I thought was perfect but more than I could also eat. I had the sweetbreads with veggies which were perfectly cooked but why charge a 10€ supplement for what my Mom served during WWII because it was “trash, offal?”
To finish I had the black chocolate with sarrasin grains and ice cream, quite nice.
So John, what was the problem? Well, to start, my friend centered on the fact that there was “no soul on the plate,” plus despite the presence of a staff of 5, the food took forever to come out, and too boot, we were overcharged 10€ - ok I didn’t pick up the upcharging until I got home, but it’s not worth going back and using my limited Japanese to recover the 10€?
Our bill with a bottle of Montplasir, was 124€ which should have been 114€?
Go? Hummm, well I’m not going back even to get my 10€ back. If the staff is this sloppy and the chef so Zen, who needs that? Too bad.
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