Pre: Last week my friend and I discussed possibilities for today's lunch. "Pavyllon's a possibility but it's over your usual price range," he said. "Ok we'll splurge." And then the news from Michelin came in yesterday - "Alleno got a star for Pavyllon, I wonder if the prices will go up?" But not yet, the business 2-2-2 lunch was still 68E.
7.3 Pavyllon (de Yannick Alleno), 8 ave Dutuit in the 8th, 01.53.05.10.10, (Metro: Concorde/CE-Clemenceau), closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays is one of three restaurants in the old Ledoyen Pavillion, which we've been coming to since the days of Ghislaine Arabian and Christian Le Squer and it retains its beauty.
After an amuse of spicy bread sticks and cream, all at the table save me had the lunch menu starting with (in their words) "Scallops quenelle, Stewed and raw white button mushrooms & Spicy aubergine, avocado sauce Lemon balm, mint and lovage." The bread was superior.
All the others then had the "Red mullet, potato flakes Cep mushroom ragout" and I had what I'd been longing for, for a couple of days and hoped would still be on the carte - pithiviers stuffed with hare and foie gras. All came with vegetable tempuras. "Very good" someone said.
Once again, I let the others indulge in the "Salted caramel ice cream double cream, Amarena cherries and roasted hazelnut & Biscuit tuile, pear bits, Milky foam with vanilla," while I poached off them but then ate my fair share of the excellent crème brulee type cake.
With 2 bottles of wine and three coffees our bill was 395E or 197.50E a couple. dB's= 77.2
Go? It certainly goes on my list of celebratory places. And you will be very warmly welcomed by the gentleman outside the door to the restaurant.
A small fortune for lunch.
Posted by: Mark H. | January 29, 2020 at 11:36 AM