Bistro Brune in the 10th: better than ok, but not much.

5.4 Bistro Brune, 70 rue du Faubourg St-Martin in the 10th, 01.42.08.16.81, open 7/7, (Metro: Chateau d’Eau) was a place suggested by a wine-maven friend who is just back from a month of wine tasting in Burgundy.  It’s welcoming, fresh and nice in a relative food desert.

My friends both started with the very reasonable “formule” of 18€ which featured a crudité salad, while I had lovely Puy lentils with ham.  Nothing bad and nothing mind-blowing.

Then they both had onglets of beef with fine small potatoes and I had a perfect chop of pork with very tasty sautéed vegetables.

To finish up we each had a spoonful of lemon ice, meringue and raspberries.

With a bottle and glass of wine and two coffees our bill was 104€ or 69.32€ a couple.

Go? I suppose if you live around the corner, although it’s a kind of louche area.  As the Beatles said "It's nothing to write home about."