5.9 Les Fines Lames, 35, rue Lepic in the 18th, (Metro: Abbesses) 01.42.55.95.95, open 7/7 is an incredibly cool place in the midst of a very hot spot - Tourist Central of Montmartre: knives stuck through the tables, bottles of wine on the wall, wine barrels on the ceiling - someone put a lot of thought into this decor of what could have been just another steakhouse.
For firsts, the ladies had a velvety pumpkin soup and a velvety cheese sauce over poached eggs - delicious.
Then three of us had their picanha (sirloin tips), cooked every which way,, in my case blue with bearnaise sauce and one the bavette, with regular potato and sweet potato fries. The beef was just fine but the fries were as they usually are in France, not what was served in Belgium eons ago.
For dessert we shared boules of sorbet and a giant brioche perdu - quite nice.
From their wonderful wine selection on the wall we had two bottles of the Faugeres and our bill with one Armagnac and 4 coffees was 161.40 or 80.70 E a couple. dB's = 78.4
Go? 'It's not urgent" as the RFC would say, but it's a thought for steak/fries on the Mont on a cold, clammy Sunday.
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