6.0 Chez Michel, 10 Rue de Belzunce in the 10th, 01.44.53.06.20, (Metro: Gare du Nord), closed weekends, has a new chef - one Masahiro Kawai - who has worked with/for Thierry Breton and Yves Camdeborde but if memory serves me correctly, has preserved much of Thierry Breton's Breton-influenced menu.
As such, he started us off with bigorneaux (periwinkles) which came with a nicely spiced butter; then my co-diner had shredded crab with avocado and jelly with toasted Breton crepes (quite nice too).
Then my friend had 4 yuge decorticated unshelled langoustines on top of gnocchi with tomato sauce and I had what they called a bouillabaisse facon chez Pierre which was not a thin fish soup with dollops of rouille but a creamy rouille soup with three large pieces of lobster, clams, asparagus and daurade.
For dessert, my friend had a nice Paris-Brest and I a Breton crepe wrapped around vanilla ice cream with almonds, confited apricot halves and a rum raisin sauce.
With a bottle of wine (with sulfites added), sparkling water and two coffees our bill was 114 E (NB. This is one of those places where the "menu" looks cheap/reasonable (29 E for 2, 35 E for 3 courses) but over 40% of items had supplements. dB's = 93.9 (a bunch of drunk Frenchmen celebrating the Ascension and a screaming toddler helped).
Go back? Not quickly.
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