Taste: Mignardises (served with coffee after dessert)
Source: L’Arpège
Photo: Jordan Grossi
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Taste: Spring lamb with oyster emulsion, baked leek and white asparagus, puree of beet
Restaurant: L’Arpège
Photo: Jordan Grossi
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Whether you’re a vegetarian, or someone who’s dating a vegetarian, you know that meatless options are hard to come by in this town. That’s especially true if you’re craving something that’s both French (skipping over some very good Italian and Asian options) and properly good. However, a handful of French tables manage to [...]
Taste: Roasted lotte (monkfish) with cabbage, oak-smoked Grenaille potato & citron cream emulsion
Source: L’Arpège
Photo: Jordan Grossi
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Taste: Plate of (Bordier) butter
Restaurant: L’Arpège
Photo: Jordan Grossi
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- P-Wells puts Passard against the wall and warns that ”anyone who serves langoustine carpaccio should be shot.” She goes on to say that L’Arpège is no better than a hospital cafeteria or a “vegetarian cult restaurant of the 1970s.” Her fighting words put us in the mood to revisit Scandal’s The Warrior (it totally holds up), and now we can’t stop imagining that Patricia Wells and Patty “Smyth” might actually be the same person. As Barbra said, “has anyone ever seen them in a room together?” [Patricia Wells]
Accolades
- Bruno Verjus sends a report from Stockholm, where he was on hand to see L’Arpège chef and vegetable fetishist Alain Passard named Best Chef by The White Guide for his “considerable influence on young chefs around the world.” Congrats, Al! [Food Intelligence]
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Cherry tomato salad
22 May 2012
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Cherry tomato salad
(Delicious) Things to Do
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Paris Food & Wine Events
1 May 2012
Le Fooding’s Veillées Foodstock festival and another stellar (and free!) wine tasting at Caves Augé.
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Paris Food & Wine Events
