7.7 Le Saint Sebastien, 42, rue Saint Sebastien in the 11th, 09.53.66.94.35, (Metro: St Amboise), closed Sundays, open for lunch Thursday and Friday and dinner other days has been getting rave reviews in/on the blogosphere since earlier this year and a dear friend said "Don't you dare go without me." So my oldest granddaughter and I trekked out to the 11th where we entered to an empty space (turns out they were sitting at the very appealing looking resto next door).
Our choices for firsts were an asparagus soup (very good) and an unusual offering - rillettes of ray with herbs (dill prominent among them) on delicious toasted bread. We went 50-50.
Then we all had a mound of kale, which almost caused me to order the other choice - pleurotes and fava beans - on top of duck done two ways, perfectly cooked breast meat alongside well cooked leg morsels. NB. I have not photoshopped these to lighten them although it wasn't really that dark.
As good as these all were, though, they were nothing compared with the two desserts, called white chocolate mousse and gariguette strawberries and rhubarb. Well, the mousse was really an incredible fluff and the rhubarb consisted of tasty strips like lattice work - Wow!
Our bill with a bottle of red Loire and their fizzy water plus 3 coffees, was 126 E or 63 E a couple. dB's = 69.4
Go back? Most certainly. As an East Coast American I'm unaware of the Willows Inn on Lummi Island where chef Rob Mendoza hails from, but from this experience it must be a hellova launching pad.
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