7.0 L’Avant Poste, 7 rue de la Fidelite in the 10th, 09.81.41.01.07, closed Sundays and Mondays (Metro: Gare de l’Est) is the second restaurant of the Les Resistants bunch, and was booked solidly with young’uns clutching either Le Fooding’s annual or Louis Vuitton’s. The kitchen is not really open but rather a wooden shed inside the central room; infinitely cool, zen, calm. Open kitchens here are called California; this was definitely “the Castro.”
The carte is quite simple: 2-3-2 and heavily tilted toward what your mother told you to eat not what you wanted. Thus it was either a vegetable soup or shaved cabbage; mullet, vegetables or chicken; celery cream or a chou. My old colleague and I both went for the latter in each case.
The cabbage was boring but I suppose good for you and went on forever; the chicken was really crisp and delicious but the veggies with it boring; and the chou with caramel tasty, flavorful and worth finishing.
Our bill (while there was a wine list, they promoted one red and one white from JP Rietsch [everything here is identified by farm, sea-setting, vineyard, etc.] in various quantities, on the carte, of which we had 2x50 cl of Red) plus 2 coffees which were supergood, and paid 87€. Db’s 84.3
Go? Now, you might think with my rating of 7/10 and my snarky comments about veggies, that I’d advise you not to choose farm to table over innovation, but the crispy chicken, the chou dessert, coffee and red wine won over my heart. My mother is long gone and can’t find fault with my eating habits anymore, so......
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