tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51901888500619850232024-03-05T05:50:30.977+01:00One Spoonful At A TimeJade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-12433173654288491122011-03-20T21:19:00.001+01:002011-03-20T21:20:26.690+01:00Goodbye blogspot, hello wordpress!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">The blog's run on blogspot.com has ended unfortunately. I am very happy with the experience I had on this blog platform but I thought it was time to renew, update and develop One Spoonful At A Time. It was a nice 8 months run with more than 13,000 hits and I am thankful for everyone for having followed me on blogspot.</span></span><br />
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</span></span></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-38228650509521570172011-03-19T19:30:00.001+01:002011-03-19T20:10:03.455+01:00Frédéric Simonin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">I have been wanting to go to <i>Frédéric Simonin</i> since I heard about its opening in April of last year. Gathering good marks from food critics and bloggers alike and recently winning its 1st Michelin star 3 weeks ago, I am not surprised that the menu prices have almost doubled. Damn!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">The restaurant, <i>Frédéric Simonin</i>, is titled after the Chef himself. A former Chef at big-name restaurants like <i>Taillevent</i>,<i> Le Cinq</i> at the Four Seasons George V Hotel and notably Joel Robuchon's right-hand man who helped him win Michelin stars in London and Paris; Simonin decided to open his own restaurant. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">A little bit heavier than the mullet. I liked the lentils better than the rabbit (perhaps because it's more of a white meat kind of poultry) - maybe because it did not taste like lentils as much?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Exceptionally, they let me have this instead of the dessert for the Lunch menu. The photo does not do the dessert any justice. It literally came as a ball of chocolate but before I had time to react and take a picture the waitress poured hot melted chocolate and the ball started to disappear before my eyes. A big 'oooh' and 'aaaah' moment.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><b>Closed: Sundays and Mondays</b></span></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-66395955692762209422011-03-16T15:07:00.000+01:002011-03-16T15:07:16.336+01:00Le 39V<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Veau fermier, macaroni au vieux comt<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i></i></span></div><i><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; 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</span></span></div></i></span></div></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-5276276143477506502011-03-13T12:02:00.000+01:002011-03-13T12:02:53.610+01:00La Gazzetta<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"></span></span><br />
<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Just a few blocks east of the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Place de la Bastille</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> and down a small side street from </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">, sits</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> La Gazzetta</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> - a low-lit and wood panelled neobistro (su rprisingly reminded me of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Balthaza</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">r or </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Pastis</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> in New York in terms of decor). </span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIOk05E4oP-7rHO01Epmy3_ZKNHtNZtcmkhp3eiZOypl4aq-da-PB7zfTmvXoQsd3pJG11LX1coBoSSpK6BPmC4yNoo5-hCCtcnEejxii3giR2aVI82SbJiIndkmQgVmVbm5ZcBEg2s-Ok/s1600/IMG_2741.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIOk05E4oP-7rHO01Epmy3_ZKNHtNZtcmkhp3eiZOypl4aq-da-PB7zfTmvXoQsd3pJG11LX1coBoSSpK6BPmC4yNoo5-hCCtcnEejxii3giR2aVI82SbJiIndkmQgVmVbm5ZcBEg2s-Ok/s400/IMG_2741.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></span></a></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The entrance outside...</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">La Gazzetta</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> under Swedish Chef Peter Nilsson, is one of the new affordable, price-fixe wonders of the contemporary Parisian restaurant scene and penned in an April 2010 New York Times piece b</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">y Christine Muhlke (click </span><a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/travel/18prixfixe.html?pagewanted=1&%2339&sq=l&st=cse&%2359;agrume%20%20paris%20bistrot&scp=1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> to read the article). Other restaurants mentioned include Frenchie (which I have yet to visit), Yam t'cha, L'Agrume, Le Chateaubriand and Jadis. Do you see similarities between these restaurants?</span></span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The reservation was early, 20h00 and many people hung out at the bar but the restaurant quickly filled up by 22h00. Tucked in a cozy table in the second dining room, we were presented with a prix-fixe menu, either of 5 courses for 38 euros or 7 for 52 euros (with 2 more dishes). </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We were lucky enough to see a fellow Ferrandi colleague, Rosella (who is interning there) before her shift started. She informed us the menu changed every week based on what's available in the market so I knew we were in for a real treat - after I read about the diverse dishes that were offered in the menu of March 12 (also available on their website).</span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Oeuf poch</span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">é </span></i></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">et navets, beurre noisette et bergamote</span></i></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Poached egg with turnips, beurre noisette foam and leaf of bergamot. I love egg, especially in dishes where the egg yolks spreads on the dish so found it very refreshing to have it for dinner - something I haven't had for a while. The texture with the crunchyness of the raw turnip played on a good contrast. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDXy-KWb2LGix4yDjLr_PXkI1Hy5kGl6TwPyHfhf-pDh-nOLx9xawxHtGpdOgApUHGn71KttOmu1JS-ga0NvblF67vH4XOnMIs7GdDKPWM-SlK7WmyirBYtLakJXj6tiOnKn_XxRP4VZE/s1600/IMG_2744.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDXy-KWb2LGix4yDjLr_PXkI1Hy5kGl6TwPyHfhf-pDh-nOLx9xawxHtGpdOgApUHGn71KttOmu1JS-ga0NvblF67vH4XOnMIs7GdDKPWM-SlK7WmyirBYtLakJXj6tiOnKn_XxRP4VZE/s400/IMG_2744.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
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I was very impressed with the portion of this dish. Usually the meat in a prix-fixe menu appears small, but not here where my palate got to taste 2 pieces of bone-marrow and a well-portione pinkish Veal in its smoky and sweet </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">jus</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdTQu5BVi-i97x0gpNPLkvQSGEVHZ0L9Nb0Zg1LRjYqE81-iW1D1Cj01jexGimRf0LOFCsgknE9NG3SdJlen0rYhPxshyphenhyphenL3E4uYdgDurPRuaMTTe2rXTm67Xm8p3JjO3yWgje7Q1LXExv/s1600/IMG_2762.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDdTQu5BVi-i97x0gpNPLkvQSGEVHZ0L9Nb0Zg1LRjYqE81-iW1D1Cj01jexGimRf0LOFCsgknE9NG3SdJlen0rYhPxshyphenhyphenL3E4uYdgDurPRuaMTTe2rXTm67Xm8p3JjO3yWgje7Q1LXExv/s400/IMG_2762.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;"></span></span></i></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Soupe de cynorrhodon et lait de ch</span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">è</span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">vre, muesli et noix</span></i></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">When I read this on the menu, I asked myself what is 'cynorrhodon' until I had to ask the waiter embarassingly; "it's the fruit from the rose-bush"..."ooh" I said. This dish reminded me of something I could eat for breakfast since I am a big fan of muesli and nuts. It was crunchy on the outside and the goat's milk was very soft. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDaq7ydxWzC1SwPDLwPWF_VzflGCydrT4nCp1GyZcOJYTtRziZKOV-g0mgXMU6vJXbfaw_Xip0WrF1DvDFA-MIen6kVMES-gl2sOsjnoeDbzQt4XlwNtOZLyrsnkkW2sby0v9y0sASiTT_/s1600/IMG_2763.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDaq7ydxWzC1SwPDLwPWF_VzflGCydrT4nCp1GyZcOJYTtRziZKOV-g0mgXMU6vJXbfaw_Xip0WrF1DvDFA-MIen6kVMES-gl2sOsjnoeDbzQt4XlwNtOZLyrsnkkW2sby0v9y0sASiTT_/s400/IMG_2763.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
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A traditional baba with blood orange, ewe's milk yoghurt and almond sorbet with mint tea foam. I am not a big fan of desserts but thought the baba was good, Ioved the blood oranges - something I haven't had since living in Italy and I was very impressed with the lightness yet strong taste of the mint tea foam which I welcomed whole-heartedly. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHLPM9_f6BehlBgyC-aen8II-2D3UPaB1ScOK99ldhrKPDzUQPu-WnEqOUEEgIcVKwNYqyvV3KcbcuhRqOjiUbqV80rN_Y2QedO5RuWNl-KW8OYht9k1sDdr_I4dTPLlpcTwG46Db-CPMq/s1600/IMG_2765.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHLPM9_f6BehlBgyC-aen8II-2D3UPaB1ScOK99ldhrKPDzUQPu-WnEqOUEEgIcVKwNYqyvV3KcbcuhRqOjiUbqV80rN_Y2QedO5RuWNl-KW8OYht9k1sDdr_I4dTPLlpcTwG46Db-CPMq/s400/IMG_2765.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;"></span></span></i></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Millefeuille chiboust avocat - agumes </span></i></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Mille-feuille of avocado and kumquat. Apologies for the picture, I started eating it only to realize I forgot to take a picture so i tried to put it together the best I could...I like kumquat and always welcome avocado of any type in dishes though the pastry was a bit too hard for me. </span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ysQrQEUViDV8lKVIR2bCTuLt6BynuE9Y5RGHysDtIDBbvNFuCMRnTMymybIGTLBT_wXkqrbRajCPAl2JbyfQV_VxCIMsJs6ehnuPNOXnIfaTGhUFNfQXtOljD2ZYdcj-1HH5CBw7hL6Z/s1600/IMG_2766.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2ysQrQEUViDV8lKVIR2bCTuLt6BynuE9Y5RGHysDtIDBbvNFuCMRnTMymybIGTLBT_wXkqrbRajCPAl2JbyfQV_VxCIMsJs6ehnuPNOXnIfaTGhUFNfQXtOljD2ZYdcj-1HH5CBw7hL6Z/s400/IMG_2766.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
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</span></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-74639484947801935972011-03-12T17:44:00.000+01:002011-03-12T17:44:14.324+01:00Les Bistronomes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Bistronomie</i>, a mash up of the words “bistro” and “gastronomie” describes the new wave of small, non-fancy restaurants who have worked in <i>haute cuisine</i> in France (please see previous post <a href="http://onespoonfulatatime.blogspot.com/2011/02/rino.html">here</a>). Let's give thanks to a journalist called Sebastien Demorand for the idea, name and new culinary movement. Demorand, a critic at Zurban, coined the term bistronomie in 2003 at the Semaine de Fooding and not even 10 years later have we seen a swarm of restaurants like <i>Les Bistronomes </i>making this concept a reality. </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Poireaux vinaigrette </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i>à</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> la truffe et mimosa</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leek vinaigrette with truffles and mimosa sauce - though I did not taste the truffle</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Salade de lentilles ti</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i>è</i></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">de, Saucisses de Morteau</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Warm lentil salad (could have been a bit more <i>al dente</i>) with Sausage - which could have been cut a bit more thinner</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A very enjoyable lunch - Thank you to Demorand for inventing the word and concept. I have become almost obsessed with this new wave and a major fan of this new movement. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></u></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><b>Les Bistronomes</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><b>34 Rue de Richelieu, 75001</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><b>Tel: 01 42 60 59 66</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><b>Metro: Pyramides</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><b>Closed: Sundays</b></span></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-55383689459691811602011-03-06T11:16:00.000+01:002011-03-06T11:16:46.435+01:00L'Agrume<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">If you're willing to trek east between the 13th and 5th arrondissement, you might as well try </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">L'Agrume.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> Headed by Franck Marchesi-Grandi who worked at the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Plaza Ath</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">é</span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">n</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">é</span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">e </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">in Paris and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Le Bernardin</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> in New York, I expected this place to be a treat. </span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px;"></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Alone in a small open kitchen, Marchesi-Grandi can't be bothered with elaborate plating and I believe he sends food that looks like what he'd made at home for his close friends. You can sit at the 'kitchen bar' just like in </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">L'Atelier</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> where you can see the Chef at work. No time for public meltdowns here. The restaurant has 2 seatings: 19.30 and 21.30. We opted for the second seating as we were still full from lunch. The service was attentive and unintrusive: one woman who acted as hostess and waitress and another waiter helping to serve the plates. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><b>Metro: Saint-Marcel (Ligne 5)</b></span></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-24672122138179958892011-03-05T18:52:00.000+01:002011-03-05T18:52:56.038+01:00Dans Les Landes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since Yves Camdeborde's success with <i>Le Comptoir</i>, s'wine bars (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">everything pork, cochon, ham, pig, hog, boar, jambon, & wine) have become more trendy.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upcoming openings include Gregory Marchand from <i>Frenchie </i>and Guillaume Delage from <i>Jadis</i>. </span></span><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Julien Duboue from <i>Afaria</i>, recently opened <i>Dans Les Landes</i> in the 5th district. Immediately when you walk in, you can tell you're in Basque region. In the background, an iPod is playing typical regional music, from the terracotta roof tiles on the ceiling you see hanging piment d'espelette and dried hams. </span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Unlike L’Avant Comptoir, there are seats - most of them are high tables made of wood, just like the interior decor. Dishes here are served tapas style and reflects the Chef's combination of different ingredients - all high quality creating the longest chalkboard menu I have seen with prices ranging from 4 euros - 21 euros. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Expect a lot of pork, duck, foie gras and grilled meats. I would definitely go back with a large group of friends to eat and drink and sample different dishes. I was very impressed with the creative presentation - a very rustic feel including wooden cheese boxes, staubs, terra cotta tiles and a slab of pork belly..yes that was the 'plate'. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Pot de boudin ti</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial;"><i>è</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>de aux pommes</i> (warm pot of boudin noir) - my favorite, very sweet and you can taste the sweetness of the apples</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Poitrine de porc croustillante aux </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>é</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>pices</i> (pork belly croquettes in 5 spice) - very Asian I thought</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Mini-croissant au Jambon truff</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>é</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - (melt-in-your-mouth) Croissant with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">flaky buttery layers of béchamel sauce, jambon and black truffles</span></div><br />
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</b></span></span></div></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-29385123983249208482011-03-02T14:52:00.000+01:002011-03-02T14:52:24.690+01:00How many amuse-bouche do we need right now? Just 239.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an unexpected blogpost from me since it's during the week and I should be at work. Well, I have a 2-hour break and I decided to come back home for a quick rest and a sip of coffee too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Usually Wednesdays is just for dinner service but today, 60 journalists came for a presentation/interview/film on my 'big boss' and we had to plate banquet-style, which is quite rare at the restaurant.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our chef decided for the garde-manger (ie. me and 2 other cooks) to plate 4 amuse-bouche per person... 60 journalists x 4 amuse-bouche = 240 amuse-bouche - in half an hour. You can just imagine the hecticness that came out of the garde-manger; something quite different to the usual restaurant service but well-worth the experience! Everything went smoothly as others in the kitchen helped too before it was their turn to plate 60 entrees and 60 main courses. We cleaned up fast since usually, we get a 3-hour break between out <i>mise-en-place</i> and service time, and luckily we were well organized!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another reason why I wanted to blog quickly was because yesterday I was interviewed by a small Parisian newspaper called "20 minutes"; it is given out free at metro stops and I was quoted at the end of this short article about foreign students coming to France (and Paris) to learn to cook. It's in french so apologies for those who do not understand but am so proud to have been part of the article on Ferrandi. Here's the link:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Basically I was quoted talking about how I love to work on promoting the natural flavors of the ingredients (e.g. the sweetness of scallops for example). I am also quoted in the fact that neo-bistros are revolutionizing French cuisine; they learned from great chefs and are renewing the basics (a response to a statement the journalist made about if perhaps french gastronomic culture is in decline compared to others?).</span><br />
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</div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-68403309322038114322011-02-27T10:21:00.001+01:002011-02-27T10:22:25.698+01:00Rino<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Rino </i>(pronounced Reeno by Parisians) has been getting rave reviews by food critics, bloggers and the like grading it 4/5 and calling the Chef an Italo-French genius. It's part of the new wave of <i>bistronomies</i> taking over Paris (alongside Inaki Aizpitarte's <i>Chateaubriand</i>, Gregory Marchand's <i>Frenchie</i> and Daniel Rose's <i>Spring</i>). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But what is <i>Bistronomy</i>?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gary Lee Kraut explains that <i>b</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>istronomy</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is a combination of bistro and gastronomy. A</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">fter classic training at some of the city's most prestigious establishments, a number of young chefs have struck out on their own with modest daily market menus made from fresh, hand-chosen produce. Fed up with the Michelin star rat race, they have sparked what some have termed the most influential culinary trend in a decade. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">These are indeed bistros since the additional elements required of a truly gastronomic restaurant—elegant services, fine tableware, more expensive produce, a section-by-section kitchen staff, a decorator—may be absent.</span><br />
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</span></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">Italo-born Giovanni Passerini runs the kitchen. Self-taught and a late bloomer in the culinary world, he started his career in a Michelin-star French restaurant (in Germany!) before heading back to Paris for a stint at <i>L'Arp</i></span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i>è</i></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><i>ge</i>, <i>Chateaubriand</i> and <i>La Gazzetta</i>. </span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;">The wine menu is presented upon sitting at the table and covers more Italian than French wines price affordably in the 20-30 euro range. Like <i>Chauteabriand</i>, it's printed on several A4 papers clipped together giving the restaurant a laxed vibe. </span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Entr</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>ée</i>: Head of pork tortellini, crayfish consomm</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;">é and turnip</span></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I thought the presentation was simple and elegant but lacked color. The consomm</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;">é was very fine, you could actually taste crayfish and nothing else. I enjoyed the softness and the moistness of the tortellini with head of pork (though the taste was not very strong) mixed with the crunchyness of the turnip. I would have liked a bit more </span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">consomm</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;">é as it was hard to spoon out the remaining drops. </span></span></b></span></span></span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;">But one main concern and coincidentally my Mother's pet-peeve: if you're going to serve a hot liquid whether coffee, tea or soup - make sure it's hot, warm is passable; but this was rather on the cold side. </span></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;"><br />
</span></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;">I personally didn't think the meal got off on a good start. </span></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;"><br />
</span></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;"><i>Poisson</i>: Monkfish, watercress, cabbages and olive tapenade</span></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: normal;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This dish was more enjoyable with stronger tastes: the saltyness of the tapenade, the sweetness of the cabbages and the quinoa and the freshness and moistness of the monkfish - which I welcome with open arms because the monkfish I usually eat is quite chewy and tough. Again, it could have been served hot. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I don't know if it was the light Southern white wine that made the dinner pleasant, but I felt the more I went along the menu, the better it got.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I loved the colors of the different ingredients on the plate: Red, green, orange and pink. The lamb was cooked <i>ros</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i>é</i>, just as it should be. I was a bit wary about the monkfish liver but there was only four drops of it on the dish so as not to overpower the sweet lamb. The onions were could have perhaps been cooked but I enjoyed their crunchyness and surprisingly subtle pickled taste. I thought this was the best dish so far.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Formerly of <i>Le Square Trousseau</i> (pre-Costes brothers) and <i>Le Crillon </i>Hotel, Chef Philippe Damas opened <i>Philou</i>, a restaurant in the 11th <i>arrondissement</i> between the Canal Saint-Martin and the Hopital Saint-Louis. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was mi-cuit, silky and smooth. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Rognon de veau et boulang</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i>è</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>re de c</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>é</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>l</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>é</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>ri</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here you'll find classic French cuisine renewed with fresh seasonal ingredients and serving natural wines for not much money. 15 - 30 euros for 1-3 courses. Thank god!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">True, that I missed one week's worth of work due to an injury but I'm happy to be back in the game, back at work, learning from the Chefs. When I came back to work, they all made fun of me about my </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vacances</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (holiday) but I kept on telling them how I really was bed-ridden and couldn't move. They still told me I had some </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">repos </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(rest) and to them</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> repos = vacances</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. To be honest, I still felt that perhaps they thought I had exaggerated the consequences of my fall when (I kid you not), 3 days ago, the</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Chef de Partie</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of the Fish station fell down the stairs and hit his head! The HR department immediately came the next day and inspected the stairs - at least they are taking this issue seriously!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surprisingly going back to work and working until 11 pm after resting didn't hit me as hard as I thought it would. I felt that I tried harder and tried to work faster to prove to them that I was still capable of doing the work. We also got 2 new people in the kitchen, including 1 girl who graduated from Ferrandi 3 years ago. At least another female but in the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">garniture/poisson</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> station. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other new chef is supposedly the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">demi-chef de partie</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, a very nice Japanese guy (yay another Asian in the kitchen) who worked in Japan, New York and now Paris. He's nice, quiet, patient and a very fast learner so I'm sure he's going to be my new boss soon.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursdays and Fridays are our lunch services so I go in at 9 am to prepare the ingredients and dishes for the lunch service at 12.30pm; let me tell you - it was hectic! It wasn't hectic because there was 60 covers, actually there was about 30 covers - the usual...but by 2.45 pm (the end of lunch service), a group of 16 people came in at once....and they all ordered the same thing - which we were not expecting so we had to our langoustine caviar dish</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> a la minute</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> which probably to the average person seems normal but this dish has langoustine cream molded onto the dish and the edges are cleaned off with vinegar and water (you CANNOT have any water marks or fingerprints on the white dish or else it's sent back) which is then cooled in the fridge - and this takes time...but no time for that - it was all go go go! Everything sent at the same time and looking the EXACT same...no room for error! I loved it though, everyone was moving around, sending dishes, the chef announcing and asking when the dish is going to be ready at 15? at 17? A real treat to see everyone in action.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The restaurant even had ordered 6 beef ribs chop that came in one gigantic piece. The supplier imitates the process of raising </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wagyu</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - beef predisposed to marbling and fattier than your average steak but the best taste ever! They cooked it in its own fat with thym and garlic cloves. The craziest thing was that the 16 people had ordered 16 steaks!? Luckily I got to try a tiny piece that was not served and it was to die for! I must say I am very impressed with the generosity of the dishes- it's not something the size of your thumb that comes onto your plate, it's actually portions!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now it's the weekend, time to rest, eat (and blog about it) and gain strength for the next week ahead!</span></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-41630552887832214512011-02-20T11:42:00.000+01:002011-02-20T11:42:21.503+01:00Aux Merveilleux de Fred<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know who Fred is...or how <i>merveilleux</i> (marvelous) he is...but his damn pastries are!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shop is tiny and its successful among the neighbors. The shop creates a range of specially and freshly made products (their specialty is <i>meringue</i>) right before your eyes (the pastry is made at window display). </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Or even </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">L’Incroyable</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> - aie beaten meringue with speculos with a chantilly middle and rolled in white chocolate chips </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Others include Sugary tart, brioche, flan, pain au chocolat and croissant, chocolate ganache and Flemish waffles. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The Meringues </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">are usually crispy on the outside with a soft with a light and soft middle - but these are something else. I saw long lines during the Christmas holiday time and I can vouch for them, that they are worth standing in line for. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Aux Merveilleux de Fred</span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Getting a reservation at </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The Hidden Kitchen (HK)</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> is not an easy task. Bookings are made at least 3 months in advance unless a client cancels last minute (which requires you to be on the HK website or follow them on Twitter and emailing them immediately about your interest in the cancelled reservation). Hotter than most Parisian restaurants, the Hidden Kitchen is a private supper club in Paris held in a couple's home. Dinner is held on the weekends only where 16 people from different backgrounds come together for a seasonal 10-course tasting menu paired with wine. Braden, our host and Chef, changes the menu every month, according to what's available in the market. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The menu is chosen at the discretion of the chefs (who ask you beforehand if you have any allergies). The menu is not disclosed until you arrive and since it is a tasting menu, the courses are small but still very inventive and fresh. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The couple (</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Braden and Laura)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> are two young cooks from Seattle, United States began hosting dinner parties in their home in 2007 as a way to meet locals. As time went by, the demand for the dinner parties grew and they subsequently took on the task of hosting dinner parties twice a week. The location is unknown to you until you are confirmed a reservation. HK is a great opportunity for them and the guests to meet other foodies. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The homepage is slick and clean like Google's, offering just 2 boxes to help users decide what to cook on. The first is to help users decide what type of recipe they are looking for, while the second is set up so that users can type in what they don't have or don't want in their recipe (for example: I typed 'roast chicken', without herbs)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The results are presented next to each other with images and their ingredients along with instructions which helps users easily compare recipes. You can also share the recipe (through Facebook, Twitter or email), save the recipe on a "Food playlist" or just simply read it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, foodies out there are already familiar with AllRecipes.com and Epicurious and are probably wondering why they should you Foodily.com but I think it's a great way to share and trade recipes between friends, "like" the recipes and even create "events" on Facebook around it. </span><br />
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<div style="color: #cccccc; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Les Cocottes</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> sits on a prestigious piece of land in a chic quartier of Paris in the shadows of the Eiffel Tower. An area not known for good-value restaurants, Les Cocottes is one of it's kind in the neighborhood fully staffed of cooks running around the kitchen. The restaurant is headed by Christian Constant (who owns sister restaurants on the same street), who worked at the Ritz, and Hotel de Crillon's 2-Michelin star </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Les Ambassadeurs</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. In 1998, he left Le Crillon to open his own restaurant, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Le Violon D'Ingres</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and subsequently </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cafe Constant</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Les Cocottes</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnH3YpnTcp2MhPMhyphenhyphen-8Iu1iXDbMH1MtNeNN01EAK3RnUxeExXXr-zHbT08Yy-v2qwjFv9eQX6ovh8ui2oMj749RwfkpdBuZotaE7cHpHnIFpmeq9YEZgnp27AotvM6kStJpESpnSF8mNi_/s1600/IMG_2545.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnH3YpnTcp2MhPMhyphenhyphen-8Iu1iXDbMH1MtNeNN01EAK3RnUxeExXXr-zHbT08Yy-v2qwjFv9eQX6ovh8ui2oMj749RwfkpdBuZotaE7cHpHnIFpmeq9YEZgnp27AotvM6kStJpESpnSF8mNi_/s400/IMG_2545.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Les Cocottes</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> serves everything from breakfast tartines to after-work tapas, even salads and soups - some critics have compared it to the American-style diner but I wouldn't label it as such, perhaps more like giving a French twist to the idea of a diner. But what Christian Constant wanted was to give people what they want to eat with good fresh produce. Diners dine either on counter-toptables or high tables giving a communal feel to the restaurant.</span></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pommes de terre caramélisées farcies au pied de porc</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> - Caramelized potatoes with pig's feet. </span></span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6es6HG0kEjAxdR6EQ8wPzz-BB8xk6KRgLkAKH6AEi7pnVEMwiM_HXwVBuS9HM0GrhX5GJmaAC_LJnfs8LJjP5hHVIuaJSJUgIDFAS9zsmxU7y3VOrXQ206m_cBw3Bu3MPKlvzXyUTW9Ob/s1600/IMG_2541.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6es6HG0kEjAxdR6EQ8wPzz-BB8xk6KRgLkAKH6AEi7pnVEMwiM_HXwVBuS9HM0GrhX5GJmaAC_LJnfs8LJjP5hHVIuaJSJUgIDFAS9zsmxU7y3VOrXQ206m_cBw3Bu3MPKlvzXyUTW9Ob/s400/IMG_2541.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b></b></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I fell in love with the idea of the dish but perhaps had too much expectation of what was going to be presented. I literally thought I would see gelatinous pig's feet. It was more like pig feet meatballs stuffed into the potato. </span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</i></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b></b></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The beef was very tender - as it should be with Boeuf Bourguignon, but had to add a lot more salt. Moreover the pasta stuck to the bottom of the cocotte, making it hard to eat. </span></span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i></i></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #cccccc; font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I was not blown away by the food at</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Les Cocottes</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> though it was enjoyable. It was a normal meal perhaps a little bit more pricey for what was given. A cool concept with the idea of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">cocottes</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. </span></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-3923259160886652562011-02-15T16:07:00.001+01:002011-02-15T16:08:12.525+01:00Le Comptoir de la Gastronomie<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">After a shopping day at your local cuisine shops (e.g. Mora, Bovida, Simone and the likes), you can take a break at <i>Le Comptoir de la Gastronomie</i> situated next to <i>Bovida</i>. Before coming to Ferrandi, I had always passed by this restaurant/boutique and often saw many people coming out of the shop with bags filled with gastronomic ingredients including fresh<i> fois gras d'oie</i> (goose foie gras) to <i>boudin noir</i> (blood sausage) even wine as well as others sitting in the restaurant next door. </span></span><br />
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</b></span></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-30879898185649095502011-02-15T09:52:00.000+01:002011-02-15T09:52:50.638+01:00Bittersweet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You're all probably wondering why I'm blogging in the middle of the week on a Tuesday morning when at this current time, I should be prepping ingredients for tonight's dinner at my internship. Good observation!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, I'm not blogging live from the kitchen (though that would be super cool)... here's the real reason why. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being over-excited with starting my new internship, I wanted to do everything I could to show my motivation and commitment to the work with a good and fresh start. This is not an over-ambitious idea, but I guess I have to admit I was still in the process of learning the 'ropes' of the trade at my internship.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Picking up produce for the 'destockage' is one of the tasks that all the chefs must commit to which requires making sure the right amount of ingredients arrived and making sure they are placed in appropriate/sanitary boxes for the fridge, ready for use.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The men in my kitchen (all men with young hearts) run around and jump stairs all the time. No, I didn't try to be like them, but I tried to rush down the stairs just like them and unfortunately for me, the ONE time I did not hold the stair railing, I slipped and fell down a flight of 10 stairs. Immediately feeling a sense of embarassment and fear that someone would see, I immediately got up but felt a surge of pain on my lower-back. I thought it was nothing too serious and didn't want to appear like a baby or a 'over-sensitive' girl in pain on her first week. I let it slide for a couple of days but unfortunately the pain got worse leaving me with sleepless nights, me unable to sit properly let alone work (standing 12 hours a day and walking around carrying 5kg of whatever ingredients/pots and pans don't help either).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finally decided it was 'smart' to see a doctor on the recommendation of the nurse who is on call at my company. Yesterday, the news was that I was not allowed to work for minimum a week as my tailbone got bruised. Telling the chefs that I could not come to work was very hard; I want to be there working even with the long hours because I get to learn something new everyday and get to improve on my skills as well; at the same time though it's hard working when you're in pain and the very bone that facilitates movement of your legs makes it harder for you to concentrate on your work; thus not perform 100%. It's a decision that I think is bitter sweet but I feel that recovering from injuries that might affect the rest of my life is more important than missing 1 week's worth of internship.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So stay tuned on One Spoonful At A Time, i will be on bed-stay and will be updating some venues that I visited in the past few months that I never got to share with you guys!</span><br />
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</span></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-36067686515079686162011-02-13T18:09:00.001+01:002011-02-13T18:10:26.058+01:00Merce and the Muse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why is it that in a city that lives on <i>caf</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i>és</i>, the coffee doesn't live up to the standard? Recently, the culmination has led to a growth of little independent 'anglo' coffee shops (that you see in London and New York) around the city that sell small pastries, leafy salads and fresh fruits. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">the petite shop Merce and the Muse </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Merce, actually said like </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Merci</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in French) in the hip upper-Marais on rue Dupuis after closing a short-lived cupcake shop nearby. Merce </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">orders her coffee from Denmark’s </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Coffee Collective</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> </i>and went there to learn how to properly prepare and extract it.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Merci Merce!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Usually in the garde-manger, there are 5 cooks, but we are only 3 - and this week exceptionally we were 2, so I was dreading the work load and also the plating because we're doing a 5-person job with only 2 in the kitchen but...I was mistaken, we did very well, got by smoothly especially during times of what seemed to be crisis when 3 tables of 6 to 8 people were announced and the plates were not even ready yet! That's when you become a producing machine, no time to think clearly or sort thoughts in your mind...it's all about GO GO GO - plate, clean, send - plate, clean, send :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first 3 days of the week are not that hard as it's just dinner service but Thursday and Friday are the longest ones as there is both lunch and dinner service and break is very minimal - maybe an hour at best!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday night is obviously what all the chefs anticipate but it is at the same time the hardest night since it's the last day of the week and they are all worn out + the fact that it's Friday night and most people will go out to dinner then!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I'm still happy - it's a great young team they have in the kitchen, all focused and working together and as my head chef said on Thursday, it's what makes an exceptional restaurant - not only the produce but the team work and the relationship the chefs have with each other...without it, we wouldn't be producing and i quote - "<i>l' excellence"</i>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm also treated with respect and feel part of the team which I think is very important because if I didn't I don't know if I could last honestly. The sous-chef, and the third line as well as the chefs de partie don't call me by my name but instead call me <i>cocotte</i> or <i>ginette</i> - a kind of term of endearment a father would say to his daughter - which I think is cute...but now I know when they're mad, they'll probably call me JADEEEEEEEE. One other chef called me <i>Lapin </i>(rabbit) the other day, because I'm jumping around the kitchen all the time, getting materials for my station, or running an impromptu errand for my sous-chef.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So far so good, thank god for weekends is all I can say right now!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a final note, I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you (to my readers/followers) for helping my blog reach the 10,000 mark in 5 months...I can't believe it and I am so so happy! Who knew! :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So please continue reading, I try my very best to blog and update you guys, and like I said I'll try to take every opportunity I can to do so!</span></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-17730929101734729312011-02-06T12:15:00.000+01:002011-02-06T12:15:08.864+01:00Le Dauphin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b><div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We're back with more news on Chef Inaki Aizpitarte, who to some is a culinary genius and an up-and-coming Chef on the Parisian food scene, while others think it's just all overrated. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">I'm not an adoring fan of Chef Inaki but his cooking is good. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">I've blogged about the Chef previously, after my visit to Chateaubriand about 3 months ago. I was very impressed at first but having eaten there a couple of times; some of the dishes became less memorable - perhaps that's where the mixed reviews of the restaurant come from? But the food is nonetheless good, moving Inaki's restaurant to 11th in Restaurant Magazine's World's 50 Best Restaurant List and beating culinary giants such as Gagnaire, Robuchon and Troisgros. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">We should be clear that the portions are not tapas-style like in San Sebastian, Spain, they are a little larger, more generous and I can't really pinpoint exactly the 'type' of food he serves - it's eclectic: French, Spanish, Japanese - kinda of like Chateaubriand where Inaki twists traditional dishes such as pig's feet, steak tartare by bringing out the original and base flavors of the dish - not overpowering it with other accompanying ingredients. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">However, unfortunately, I found there to be a lack of salt in the dishes - perhaps purposely done to accentuate the original taste? I do like a lot of salt...I was overall more impressed with this restaurant than Chateaubriand, it's something different and the food choice was more interesting - it was from the carte (whereas Chateaubriand is a prix-fixe for 50 euros). The prices of the dishes were reasonable for Parisian standards; between 8 - 10 euros, but serve this in Spain, I'd think he'd go out of business. </span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.4;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had orientation on Monday and Tuesday (morning) and we were explained the values of the restaurant, about formalities such as health benefits, security, got my locker and uniforms and life as a </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stagiare</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and what was expected of you. I was feeling very excited/anxious as I did not know what to expect on Tuesday afternoon.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday afternoon after lunch, I had to be dressed and at the kitchen at 2 pm. There was only 3 chefs there at the time - Monday through Wednesday, the restaurant only serves the dinner service so the chefs do not have to be there in the morning all the time but Thursday and Friday is lunch and dinner service so full on work from 9 am until 11.30 pm. Dinner service holds around 50 + covers so imagine all the dishes we have to prep and make (that's on Thursday and Friday; Monday through Wednesday is a bit lighter but still around the 30s).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Working there, you have to be committed. This is definitely not a place where you get to prance around and just 'observe', you must act and react; there's always something to do, something to prepare, something to send to the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pass</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (the counter where all the dishes go for a final inspection by the Chef and into the hands of the service staff). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought that in my first week, I'd just be cleaning and weeding out lettuce but I was put straight into the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">garde-manger</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and prep, plate, and finish 6 different dishes that we send out including the amuse-bouche, the 2 seafood starters and 1 seasonal starter (changes every couple of weeks) and the final dish before dessert. Yes...I actually plate and send!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it's definitely not an easy task as the level of quality is so high that if in the Chef's eyes it's not perfect, they are not going to send it and you have to do it all over again. The pace is super fast - 20 times more than school but I love it. It's obviously very tiring at the end of the day when you're cleaning at night and you feel the weight of your body just wanting to fall and then you go to sleep and get up in the morning to do it - but it gives you this high, adrenaline rush when you're in the kitchen that's operating at like 100 miles an hour. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chefs are nice - and I'm the only girl. I'm also the shortest which does not help at all times since I have to ask one or two if they can grab me the pan that's on the highest shelf they have...but they are all nice, patient (for now :) and were telling me that if I had any questions, that I should ask as they were in my position before so they understand what to do, what not to do and how to do it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The head Chef, the sous-Chef and the 3rd in line are also patient with me (for now) and they are teaching me the tools of the trade. This restaurant produces great dishes that I have seen gone by and very generous surprisingly in terms of portions - I thought I'd be looking at mini dishes but they serve great portions. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So for now, this is what I've experienced...I'm obviously super tired but will try to blog as much as I can, at least once or twice about my week. Every weekend I'll go to a new place to eat so don't worry, pictures will be up (tomorrow). </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An overall good but hard week but I believe I can do this and I love doing it..It just requires a lot of strength - both physical and mental to handle the heat, and the fast-paced environment for like 6 hours!</span></div></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-49272979089228926022011-01-30T18:18:00.000+01:002011-01-30T18:18:49.051+01:00Onto Chapter Two<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tomorrow is going to be the second chapter of my so-called 'new life'; working in a Michelin-star restaurant; out of respect to the Chef and restaurant, I will keep it anonymous. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chapter 1: at ESCF-Ferrandi was tough to begin with, but with time, effort and commitment, I got by, ended up loving every minute of every second and actually, now, wished I was still in school. Maybe it's the fear of what's going to happen tomorrow, maybe it's the stress that I will be induced in, maybe I just don't want to fail and I'll do anything in my power to not let that happen.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be honest, I feel a mix of emotions, and I think that's normal. I don't know what's going to happen, what to expect, what to do better on. What I do know is that I have to give 200% (even more - 300% as Chef always says) and that's exactly what I'll do because as of right now, that's the only thing I know how to do, and what to do - in terms of what I know my capacity is. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know when the next time I'll blog. Tomorrow for me, is orientation day, a day to learn the concepts and attitudes of my 'head' company but Tuesday, will be the real, the first new page of Chapter 2. I'll probably blog tomorrow just because of my excitement/fear of the next day but after that, who knows. Maybe I'll be working 15 hour days and am so exhausted I can't blog until the weekend, or maybe I will have the strength to do so...But I cannot guarantee anything right now, so I want to assure my followers that I will try to do my best.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a final note, to those who will start interning tomorrow, to those who will start one week later and to those who already started, the best of luck, hopefully I'll have the time and energy to visit you guys and blog! I know all of us deserve what we got and I wish you guys a great experience in the restaurant/hotel you'll be working in.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please continue following, without you guys this blog would be dead!</span></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190188850061985023.post-26653645439443021902011-01-29T10:28:00.001+01:002011-01-29T13:37:32.091+01:00Les Fines Gueules<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f0f0f0; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Futura, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">In culinary school, we're told that not only does our cooking techniques matter, but for French food to be truly good, it should consists of the freshest available produce so that ingredients shine. I believe that </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Les Fines Gueules </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">(an equally cozy wine bar and perhaps what might be the best steak tartare in Paris), right off </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Place des Victoires</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">, embodies this principle. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3wBv8Vy0CYBlfJPB2uue7pfX9WhJSKWj-78p6F5mEMyqZyH18cOAE3MsOlOGEH88qvnLWrman3Sqti-EPhdz1o57qtmbOz8m74F5Z17WvT6pMeJrsYT6GCyjVPJKY-tgQeigsunRPAAG/s1600/IMG_2464.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD3wBv8Vy0CYBlfJPB2uue7pfX9WhJSKWj-78p6F5mEMyqZyH18cOAE3MsOlOGEH88qvnLWrman3Sqti-EPhdz1o57qtmbOz8m74F5Z17WvT6pMeJrsYT6GCyjVPJKY-tgQeigsunRPAAG/s400/IMG_2464.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, Futura, Arial, sans-serif;"></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">It serves the best quality produce in a generous serving but without overdoing it in presentation. The restaurant is not cheap, serving also </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">vins naturels</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> from France but serves some of the country's best oysters, cheese, meat, etc...</span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We opted not to order <i>l'assiette de cochonailles</i> (a gigantic and beautiful basket of charcuterie) as we would never have finished the meal. Instead, we chose from the 3-course prix-fixe menu at 42 euros - quite steep compared to other restaurants (I remember hearing it used to be fixed around the late 20s) but decided upon it anyways.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In terms of service, I found it to be a bit lagging in the beginning and the maitre d' wasn't very welcoming at first, ignoring many clients. However as the service picked up, we got to speak to some of the waitresses and they ended up having a very good sense of humor about it all. I quote: "the service is bad but the food is spectacular"...</span><br />
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</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ending the dinner and going home was a real task as I was very stuffed; though I would like to return to this restaurant to see what Chef Jego brews up the next time!</span><br />
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</span></span></b></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chez L'Ami Jean</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">27 Rue Malar, 75007</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tel: 01 47 05 86 89</span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Metro: La Tour-Maubourg (Ligne 8)</span></b><br />
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</span></b></div>Jade Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11833256800073843763noreply@blogger.com0