Pre: So I read about these guys, Victor and Charly, I assume they are guys, but in California, every customer is a guy. Anyway. they were opening a brasserie that was not a brasserie as I know it but a place serving "culture food." Hummm, culture food. To me that means stuff like spelt and hemp and kale. But no, it was touted (https://fr.newtable.com/restaurant-brasserie-bellanger-4612.php) as traditional dishes, like ?uf [sic] mayo, at ridiculous prices - say 1 €. So it's Sunday, I'm plain out of inspiration, why not?
5.4 @VictoretCharly Brasserie Bellanger, 140, rue du Faubourg Poissonnièr, telephone (well, that's a whole other story), open 7/7, reservations - faggedaboudid, Metro: Gare du Nord, is everything that its publicity and instragram and Facebook and Twitter posts imply - it's chaotic, totally full, hip, cheap and fun. Fine dining it is not - but real napkins, good wine and serviceable service it has.
So, for firsts, we started out with a salad frisee (5 €) and 2 oeufs mayo (2 € each, up from 1 €) spelled ?uf on the addition, I swear to Buddha, perfectly proper.
Then my friends from the boroughs had overcooked sausages with great mashed potatoes (13 €) and I had a quite decent and wonderfully spicy tartare of beef with the usual pathetic fries cooked once not twice and not in duck or goose fat, oh well (13 €).
For dessert, we went nuts (6-8 €) and had a chocolate mousse, lemon tart and Paris-Brest, thinking of the Giro in the snow, however. All were quite good.
With a bottle of Badoit (8 €, whoa, that's way out of line with their image, but...), 2 bottles of non filtered but sulfur added wine (26 €), pretty ordinary but super looking bread and 2 coffees (5 € the two), our total was 132.50 or 88.32 € a couple. dB's = 84.0
Go? I'm sure going to tout every one of my backpacking grandkids who flop at my pad, here. Without liquids one could exit for 21 € a person. Incredible.
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