7.6 Sellae, 10, rue des Wallons in the 13th, 01.43.31.36.04 (Metro: St Marcel) closed Sundays got a rare 3 hearts from Emmanuel Rubin of Figaroscope yesterday and slow learner that I am it took me a while to figure out that it was in the former Variations space and its chef a former Top Chef, was someone I adored at Mensae. Well, spoiler, he's done it again.
My dining partner, a fellow Viet Nam Vet, except he was a Marine machine gunner and I was a Jewish doctor who can't stand blood (look up the joke reference) said "you order." No one has ever said that to me. I shook my head, no no, I could not take the responsibility especially if things went South. So he ordered the quite fine mussels and I had the dish of the year - mushrooms and snails in a green soup, foam, espuma, sauce called sabayon - my oh my, in heaven and not coming back.
Then he had two tender juicy lamb chops with a stalk of what they listed as romaine, but I said was celery or leeks, and savory and I had two absolutely perfect pieces of pintade with spinach (so there, Colette!) and a ton of morels. Delish!
At this point we looked at each other - I was full but on a roll, I suspect he was as well - so to hell with diets - he ordered the apple tart (which our incredibly genial waitguy said was "apple pie a la mode") and I had chocolate mousse - OK, hold it right there. How many chocolate mousses have you or I had in Paris? A zillion, right. And they're good, generally, sometimes very good. This was off the charts - 10+. Liquid, languid, luxe.
The bill John? Jeez, claiming he owed me in return for reading my reviews forever and my cowardly service to my country, he picked it up. But here are some hints. The wine was 35E, 3 dishes at lunch are 22 E and the carte at night is 50-65E. We're talking for a 7.6/10 meal. dB's were equally outstanding, 88.4 dB.
Go? Nah, it's too far for you, leave it for we schleppers using bus 91.
PS He designed the menu at Jacopo and I'll go in 81 hours. But who's counting.
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