Le Petit Gris in the 17th. Let's dissect my headline. 1st - The dishes on the carte (menu) look traditional; cromesquis, snails, frogs legs, ganache, etc. 2nd - But they are prepared with new twists: the snails are not in butter and parsley but in the cromesquis, the frogs legs are not sautéed in butter and parsley (beginning to get the picture?); and the chocolate is not in a cream but a bar. 3rd - No American (read Yankee) would be caught dead here, it's 100% French. MFFA: make France French Again!
Colette being indisposed, there were 3 of us, who respected the menu's caution that we should share dishes intended for 2-3 persons. So from Left to right: cromesquis of snails with chorizo, potatoes darphin (very yummy), frogs legs, filet of beef Wellington (with an astonishing pastry), filet (not quenelles) of brochet and a "finger" of chocolate in nuts.
Our bill, with a bottle of San Pellegrino and Cotes de Ventoux plus 2 coffees, was 110E or 74E a couple.
PS. The repetition of "but" is to annoy other English Major graduates of Cambridge Community College.
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