September 2012
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Crude Awakening →
nytimes.com
In the stripped-down interiors at the Brooklyn restaurant Isa, there is a hint of the menu to come.
“The camera is so utterly in love with Rachel that she could cremate a Pot Noodle and make it look aspirational.”
—The Mirror’s Jane Simon on Rachel’s TV debut last night on BBC2.
Paris Restaurant Highlights in no particular order...
Septime - Everything, but especially Beets with charred baby leeks and grated foie gras and their Orange Sorbet with blood orange, crumble and curd.
L’Avant Comptoir - Scallops in bouillon with cocoa nibs, Scallop tartare, Boudin macaron with piment d’espelette jelly.
Frenchie Wine Bar - Too many as it has literally become my canteen, but mostly Burrata with Boudin Noir and Apple Chutney, Casseron coleslaw, Smoked mackerel with cauliflower, Matteo’s Panna Cotta with butternut.
Au Passage - Magret de canard, Duck heart and liver, Scallops with blette.
Aux Deux Amis - Horse tartare on one occasion, then devouring most of the menu in one hungry sitting on another …
Verjus Wine Bar - Succulent crunchy fried chicken, Celery root dumplings, Skillet broccoli with rice cake and anchovy.
Le Verre Vole - Anything containing offal.
Quedubon - Artichokes and foie gras, their medley of lamb insides.
February 2012
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January 2012
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“I meet the pal, who’s been marooned at the stool-free bar in the anteroom. We’re both looking pretty hot, I’d say. But we’re still led on the restaurant equivalent of the walk of shame, past the good seats (and everyone stares when you walk into a C&K joint, on the off chance you might ‘be somebody’) to a glassed-off, curved area beside the service station, where we can neither see nor be seen. This is not so much Siberia as leper colony.”
—Marina voices her verdict on her visit to The Delaunay in the Metro.
