Chez Delphine in the 9th is a place friends who live nearby steered me to last month and we thought it was outstanding. Today was a successful repeat with another food-sensitive friend. But.....
Without my long-distance glasses I could not read the carte in French across the room and without a giraffe's neck I could not see the one in English over my head either. Luckily, Madame grabbed an ardois from the window and we were set to go. But...
Colette refrained from a first (she wisely waited for dessert), but she helped us polish off a portion of a terrine of chicken livers and a terrifically spicy mixture of encornets and salad greens.
Then she had the aile de raie Grenobloise, while our friend and I both had langoustines on top of a nicely flavored risotto. But....
She then got her reward for holding back, a huge volcanic dome of ile flottante with caramel sauce that we all ooooh’d and aaah’d about. But....
Our bill, with 2 bottles of Cahors, one charged as a 24€ higher Rhône, but no charge for a Chateldon, so consider it -7€, plus 3 coffees, was 199€ (which is outrageous) for three but correctly calculated would be 182€ or 132.32€ a couple. In their defense, we didn’t pick up the gross overcharge and the waitlady seemed new to the role, but nevertheless a 17€ tip was a bit much.
Go back? To get a refund maybe.
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