7.5 Chantoiseau, 63 rue Lepic in the 18th, 01.42.51.39.95 closed Mondays and Tuesdays (Metro: Lamarck-Caulincourt/Abbesses) opened Wednesday and already it's clearly a big hit on the Mont. Two brothers, Nicolas et Julien Durand chef and one of their wives, Julia Soto, covers the salle; among them they've put in time at Servan, Capitaine, Gagnaire and the Georges V, which is pretty impressive. I often say a restaurant and carte look the same as a thousand other places - that's not the case here! The décor is sleek, modern bare stone and wood (which they themselves stripped down and redid) and the menu offers many items which you usually see only one of which elsewhere.
We started off with 4 warm gougeres with comte, sorry, I couldn't help myself); a saupiquet of mushrooms, coques, mussels and enoki with honey, lemon and sapin vinegar and superb Utah Beach oysters with lemon, coriander and ginger. A wonderful start.
For mains, Colette had scallops with heliantis, sarrasin (buckwheat) and I had chevreuil which was young enough to be easy to chew, with white and red cabbage. Another wow course.
For dessert, Colette had the millefeuille and I a tart of agrumes; both fitting ends to a superb meal
Our bill, with a bottle of biodynamic Languedoc, 2 coffees and the mignardises, was 146E. db"s = 80.1 BTW the bread was superb.
Go? Not since L'Arcane have we seen such cuisine up here! Julia's welcome was so inviting.
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