Pre's: Well so many pre's: Sylvain Sendra of Temps Au Temps and Itineraires fame is back from a 2-year exploration of cuisine worldwide, his new restaurant is beautiful with touches of his travels including a variety of serving bowls and plates that were stunning. His vegetable supplier is the incredible Asafumi Yamashita whom we spent much of a day with 9 years ago - https://johntalbottsparis.typepad.com/john_talbotts_paris/2010/07/asafumi-tamashita-and-knowing-where-your-food-is-from.html
8.0 Fleur de Pavé, 5 rue Paul Lelong in the 2nd, 01.40.26.38.87, closed Sundays and Mondays (Metro: Bourse) has been a long time coming, but it was well worth the wait. For his 45 E supposedly 4-course lunch he has teamed up with master vegetable grower Yamashita and the results are simply dazzling:
My goodness: everything from shaved and pureed cauliflower to caviar d'aubergines, from daikon, carrots, cucumber and parmesan to 2 types of basil on top of beets and other root vegetables with a kicky curry sauce to edamame and petit pois with chives to cheese (goat, St Nectaire & comte) with three condiments and desserts, ices and mignardises. Phew! AND the bread and olive oil were wonderful.
The chef and his sommelier made sure we didn't go thirsty and offered us generous pours of champagne and a Loire naturally bubbly desert wine as well as a very reasonably priced Languedoc.- all out of Zalto glasses.
With the wine, their filtered water and 2 coffees, our bill was 182 or 121.32 E a couple. dB's were so low I didn't measure them.
Go? If you're willing to put yourself in the chef and his co-pilot's very competent hands at a very reasonable price, you bet. If you insist on ordering a la carte, you're on your own.
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