Polmard, 55-57 rue de Grenelle in the 7th (the Beaupassage), closed Sunday nights and Mondays, 07.69.42.24.64, (Metro: Rue du Bac) was not open at the start of the Beaupassage’s existence, but I dropped by a few weeks later and very much liked the cut of its jib. While there are seats outside, the majority of seating is on the second floor in quite lovely raw wood walls and mismatched chairs. The menu is not super big, and is all meat as one would expect from this famed Left Bank butcher whose beef farm dates back 6 generations.
We plunged right into ordering main courses, although the firsts looked very tempting. My host went with a giant pork chop, his pal the pave and I a hache de boeuf with pepper, which I couldn’t taste, brought in flambé (which is why I could get a photo), whose liquor I could also not detect, but it certainly caught the attention of the other customers. Two of us had sides of quite decent fries and the other a nice potato cake.
For desert, my friends both had chocolate quenelles with cream which were super rich and unparalleled.
Our bill, with no bottled water but a lovely Rhône (there is no wine list, the som is a walking wine list) an affectation which I'm not sure I like much, and three glasses of another red and three coffees, was picked up my friends, but by spying a look, seemed to be just under 200€ thus about 132€ a couple. Db’s = 80.3 and no intrusive music.
Go? It’s meat, ok, but beautiful meat by one of Paris’ best.
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