Baltard au Louvre in the 1st is the third in a successful run of restaurants managed by Laurent Frechet following Pirouette and Zebulon (credit also goes to his brothers Jean-Marie and Thomas Chaput). We were warmly greeted by our host and later warmly welcomed by chef Ewout Vranckx both of whom spoke with the ease of those who have worked all over the world. The meal started with a most generous offering of glasses of a Sancerre that one of our guests recognized as best of show in the region, and an amuse of lemony mouse on tiny bits of celery.
The 25 € formula sounded terrific and our co-diners from the Bay Area went with it, starting with a watercress soup and cooked but cool mackerel (“fantastic”) covered with a host of herbs and veggies.
They then had the lieu jaune and boudin noir (for which the “this is fantastic“ utterance came again), while Colette had the a la carte half pigeon in blood sauce and I the a la carte foie gras, first poached, then sautéed or vice versa which dissipated my need to stock up before New Years Eve.
To finish up we all dove into their daily dessert - a very nice rice pudding.
Our bill with a bottle and glass of wine (St Joseph) and Badoit and 4 coffees with lovely mignardises, was 177 € or 88.50 € a couple.
(Photos credits for food and wine = Jake Dear).
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