Me: Free for lunch?
She: The 7th?
Me: Brasserie Lutetia?
She: Why?
Me: Sunday and Gérald Passedat
She: OK.
Approach outside door, bilingual sign says: "Open for Breakfast at 8; enter main door on right" but door is open so enter.
Arranging table at a banquette as requested, management-type manages to tip over a flower vase full of water; however, impressive restoration and olive wood bread plates, etc. make one hopeful.
4.5 Brasserie Lutetia (ex-Abwehr Zentrum) by Gérald Passedat, 43 boulevard Raspail in the 6th, 0149.54.46.46, open 7/7 (Metro: Sevres-Babylone) has a stunningly expensive lunch "menu" at 85E but a la carte seems manageable.
Waiter to Colette: "Would you like some focaccia?" "No." Disappears without asking me if I'd like some, which I would, only to reappear with sour dough but no focaccia.
Oysters appear and are of a proper temperature and texture. Then aioli "des Familles." Our friend, the woman who knows more about food than God herself, said "Aioli is the most tasty dish in French cuisine;" however we found the fish to be tasteless and the vegetables overcooked and soggy; plus the aioli sauce "had no garlic." Colette' ordered "Nantua de potimarron", their take on quenelles de brochet sauce Nantua which turned out to be 50% soup, 3 unexciting quenelles with two decorative tiny crabs. And, the fritto misto's were really fish 'n' chips with a weird batter, soggy fish but the chips were crisp as were some green leaves.
For dessert, Colette had the licorice souffle which had absolutely no whiff of licorice and our friend had a chocolate dessert made like two fish - bizarre!
Our bill, with a bottle of wine and 2 coffees, was 194 or 129.32E a couple. dB's 66.2 once they muted the music.
Go back? Sleeping again instead of reading, eh? When the highlight of the meal is a chocolate covered almond, there's a problem.
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