Pre: since age 5 I’ve had lobster in Maine almost every year, most famously at the Black Point Inn in Prout’s Neck which served lobster 3 times a day. Nothing is better than Maine lobster fresh out of the water, boiled and served with melted butter. So why on earth did I drag a friend to this Montparnasse branch of a Dinan lobster pound? I really don’t have an excuse. I did read that its decor brought you back to Cape Cod, that it served North American rather than Breton lobsters, and that they were really cheap, la Fourchette offering -30% off the carte.
1.0 Homard et Chips, 165, boulevard Montparnasse in the 6th, 01.42.49.29.86, open 7/7 (Metro: Port Royal) looks nothing like Cape Cod, and its lobsters, as my friend pointed out, looked nothing like those from the east coast of North America. But the welcome was very warm and I was delighted to see oysters available today.
My co-diner started off with accras of lobster, which turned out to be 99% batter and 1% lobster, I swear, and my oysters were the smallest number 3’s ever and the pipettes of vinegar a sad example of such.
Then we charged onto the main course. She had the boiled version but I had a first in all my years, a deep fried half which tasted like it had been burnt over a wood fire. The saving grace were the condiments, pickled carrots, tartare and mayo. The Chips, aka fries, supposedly house made, were pathetic even in France where one doesn’t expect much.
The bill, with a bottle of wine and Chateldon, €10 and 2 coffees at €2.50 each, was €110.90.
Go back? Not even if Cape Cod Airlines were still in service.
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