6.9 La Canonniere, 57, rue de la Fontaine au Roi in the 11th, 09.83.22.05.09, closed Mondays and Tuesdays (Metro: Faggedaboudid), is the sort of place Food Business : La face cachée de la gastronomie française would have picked as a winner: while not in a food desert, indeed it is in the food hall that is now the 11th, it has a talented chef, 150 bottles of wine (10E corkage) and sane prices (15 for 2 and 18 E for 3 dishes at lunch). As we entered, the odor of fresh vegetables cooking in a broth overwhelmed us - ah, "Lafayette, we are here."
So, Colette, captivated by the smell of the soup into which the chef seemed to be ever-adding ingredients, had it with an egg in the middle, while the friend I've known the longest in France (1953) and I had the duck livers, which were OK but not up to the gold standard of A. Noste, but then.... Then all of us had the stew of bit of leg of venison with veggies which as usual for game, were more dry than I wish, but then... Finally, the ladies had the cream of lemon with cookie bits, not terrific.
Our bill, with two bottles of red, one marked Poisson Rouge, the next Poisson Regale, both wonderful, no bottled water but three coffees (my pal from nearby, ordered hers noisette, no milk here, so the genial waitguy hustled next door to the Thai joint, and came back with some - Extra Points for that!), was 83 or 55.32E a couple.
Go? I'm cluing my cousin in law's friend who wants reasonably priced places in Paris as soon as I finish this.
A wall of plants that Colette insisted be published as a sign that ecology will win out.
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