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Lovely lunch today at Parcelles. Food as good as ever and service was friendly, understated and bang on. Wine list has been picked over a bit, but I did manage to unearth a 1998 Domaine de Montille Volnay 1er Cru Champans, at a fair price that was singing.
Le Bon Georges yesterday was superb.
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Donna does not have a wine list either . . . it is tough to play the guessing game.
Restaurant Le Dôme, in Montparnasse has been recommended to us several times over the years, by people in the know. For whatever reason, we have never made it here until now. A long, leisurely lunch with the family beckoned.
This is a classic Parisian art deco Brasserie, famous for its seafood platters. We were greeted with a warm welcome and sent out onto the terrace to be looked after most amiably by a young waiter and his older mentor. The service throughout was delivered with great humour and skill.
A glass of Taittinger, poured from Magnum got the gastric juices flowing. It was so fresh, with equal parts lemon and chalk. It was creamy and fine, dry and just complex enough to engage whilst preparing the palate for the food that was to follow. Some complimentary sea snails came with a carpenter’s nail for you to prong and scoop the slug out of its shell. I had a few and they were tasty but couldn’t get my dining companions to join in. They were much more comfortable with a very good amuse of a creamy fish puree with aniseed served with a radicchio leaf. It had a savoury, French onion dip thing about it.
The wine list here is interesting. There’s a decent range of younger white Burgs at very good pricing for Paris. There is a really good selection of aged Bordeaux and Rhone at extremely good prices if that’s your thing. We ended up with a bottle of 2020 Vincent Dauvissat Chablis 1er Cru La Forest. It had a straw/hay note that I see in many 2020 Chablis. It also possessed intense citrus fruits and oozed saline minerality. It was silky through the palate with good volume and complexity. The finish had fine acidity and some fennel and mint.
I’ve always found the acidity in Rhubarb to be weird. It is a little spiky which leads to it finding it hard to play well with others. I now know that pate de foie gras is its friend. The Foie here is so good and Rhubarb contrasts, supports and cleanses. As harmonious as a Greenidge and Haynes partnership. Lily and Heidi had a wonderful salmon sashimi with an Asian style sauce, served on strips of cured cucumber. So vital and interesting with its contrasts of textures. Patrick wasn’t having an entrée, but the waiter gave him another bread roll to keep him going until main course.
For main, I had the best sole Meunier I have ever had. Faultless and just so delicious. Heidi and Lily had the best Merlan Meuniere they have had. To be fair, I’m not sure either of them have had Merlan before. Patrick has had plenty of black Angas beef back home and his steak here with bearnaise sauce was the bomb. He needed an aged Bordeaux. I tried to talk him into shouting the table a 2008 Château La Fleur-Pétrus, but he reckoned he forgot to let his bank know he was going to France and that his card didn’t work.
We were all a bit full for dessert, but Heidi ended up with a gigantic tranche of Millefeuille. It was so decadent with its rich cream of vanilla and Rhum. Lily’s fresh fruits with coconut ice cream was a little more sympathetic to one’s bien-être. Patrick hammered two balls of Mango flavoured Berthillon ice cream and I had a little puck of Saint-Marcellin cheese that was so creamy and full flavoured. It was served with some Provencal olive oil, and you were encouraged to grind a bit of black pepper on it.
From start to finish, this was a wonderful lunch with the family.
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Le Dime used to regularly have Ravenneau premier cru st fantastic prices, but not the last time I was there (which was several years ago). Oysters, sole, Ravenneau, perfect.
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Jeremy, what did you have to drink at LBG? Planning on dining there next month. Thanks.
We loved it at Le Dome as well.
Deutz and Domaine Huet #FTW
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Hi Jon,
2021 Hubert Lamy En Remilly was singing. A 2016 Jean-Philippe Fichet Meursault Le Tesson was mature but very good and a 2017 Philippe Cheron Gevrey 1er Cru ‘La Romanee’ was delightfully fragrant.
kind regards
Jeremy
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Well done!
Does this mean Patrick let his bank know about his travel? 
Not yet. He’s still scared I’ll make him shout a bottle.
Excellent, thanks Jeremy!
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Excellent dinner at La Cagouille last night. Still my favourite reataurant in Paris for seafood. A place of no pretence, quality ingredients and adept cooking. The wine list seems to have had some serious additions over the past 12 months. We had an outstanding 2012 Dauvissat Foret and excellent 2017 Domaine Roulot Meursault Les Vireuils at fair prices.
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Will be in Paris for a day… was looking for some new dinner recs. Will need to book 1 top… prefer casual to avoid jacket, etc. appreciate any recs, thank you
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If you search the Paris dining thread for “solo” you will find a bunch of suggestions there
This may not be what you’re looking for, but we had an outstanding Japanese meal at Bar des Pres in the 6er. It was so good that when my daughter found herself with a free (solo) night in Paris this past November we told her to go there and she loved it. Can sit at the bar.
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Almost every meal I’ve posted about in the main Paris thread was either solo, or at a restaurant that I have previously been solo. I’ve never had an issue with or felt uncomfortable at a Paris restaurant by myself.
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For old school meals, I like L’Assiette in the 14th arr.
Chez George is an excellent classic bistro with a lot of activity to watch. If it is still open the restaurant at the top of the Pompidou was excellent with a spectacular sunset view.
There are a lot of recommendations in the Paris dining thread, so much better to continue it then reinvent the wheel.
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