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Poussin: wine bar and cellar restaurant - 12 rue Cheroy, Paris 17th
A wonderful welcome at this charming little wine bar in the Batignolles neighborhood! The décor is very pleasant; you come here to enjoy great wines and share Tapas dishes.
Their specialities: charcuterie, croque comté, beef tataki, patatas bravas, pimientos del Padron… Beautiful plates at reasonable prices!
We thoroughly enjoyed several tapas, notably the perfectly seasoned beef tataki, and we chose the Domaine de La Petite Odyssée (Antoine Bernardin), cuvée Saillant 2021 to accompany our sharing plates.
A very beautiful biodynamic red wine from the Haute-Garonne, with a rich and enchanting aromatic palette! This blend of Merlot, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon has deep notes of ripe red fruits, touches of spice and cocoa, a lovely well-balanced tannic structure and a lingering finish!
The perfect spot for an afterwork drink or a date — we'll let you choose.
Saisons - 50 rue du Château, Asnières Sur Seine
You are now becoming familiar with this address where we go regularly — which says a great deal about how warmly we are received! Yet another fabulous team dinner at Saisons - Cuisine du Marché with a wonderful welcome from Frédérique and her son Simon.
A meticulously crafted menu prepared specially for our team, featuring highly refined and intensely flavoured dishes, as well as great wines enjoyed to celebrate the year's end with colleagues.
Here we go.
Delicious potimarron soup with grilled mushrooms and spiced sauce, followed by a magnificent tuna steak beautifully accompanied by lovely condiments (lemon, lovage) for the starters.
And then, WOW: magnificent food and wine pairings with some very impressive bottles.
Philippe Pacalet, Puligny Montrachet 2019: it is very lovely, perhaps still a touch young, but so enjoyable to drink right now! A very fine aromatic richness after quite a bit of aeration: fresh notes of white flowers and white fruits, an ample texture, complexity following 1 year of ageing on the lees… Very beautiful!
Coche Dury Meursault 2008: with this blind tasting sock, as usual, no one knows what to expect — except the person who chose it… Well, 9 pairs of eyes were immediately wide open after the first sniff.
You can tell it is a very great fine wine. Meursault is not so difficult to identify: butter, brioche, honey, hazelnut, yeast and oak ageing, intense notes… You already revel in it at the nose alone. On the palate, it is pure ecstasy. A magnificent roundness, a silky texture, always that buttery and toasted character — it is extraordinary.
One of us dares to say "it's a Meursault from Coche" — even though you never quite know what the bosses will put on the table… Well, it's a resounding yes! Vintage 2008, far better in white than in red when it comes to Burgundy.
Bouchard Père et Fils Corton Charlemagne 1987: the wine pairs perfectly with our second starter based on fish! A fine wine with notes of citrus, honey and a hint of toastiness. Freshness, roundness, balance — it is superb, even past its peak.
On to the main course. Simon has prepared for us a delicious pigeon with a beetroot reduction, beetroot purée and beetroot pickles. Absolutely stunning — beet lovers, you are in for a treat!
Tender, flavourful, well-seasoned and beautifully accompanied…
L'Anglore Tavel 2021: always a pleasure to taste. Some members of the team are not great fans, but Tavel remains for almost everyone one of the finest cuvées from this estate. A fruit bomb.
Clos Rougeard Le Bourg 1989: as with Coche Dury, you sense you are in the presence of a great heavyweight. It is grand, very grand. Dense, thoroughbred, complexity that leaves us speechless, with exceptional length and finesse.
Domaine du Colombier Hermitage 1999: you sense a touch of well-integrated stems (a green note that is therefore not at all disruptive and adds complexity), peppery notes, fruit, roasted aromas… On the palate, it is fleshy, with tannins that have become supple… We all lean towards a syrah; Hermitage is among the guesses around the table, and we all agree there is some age. And so here is a beautiful Hermitage 1999!
Trévallon 1982: incredible! It joins the club of Coche Dury and De Rougeard, also earning a place on the podium of the evening.
What a revelation!
For dessert, a magnificent creation around pear, vanilla and pecans. A delight enhanced by a delicious Sauternes: Château Filhot 1986.
Another magnificent evening with wines that are not about to be forgotten! We even had the chance to taste them again at the office the next day!
La Cantine de Samuel - 11 rue Fourcroy Paris 17th
Another charming little address in the 17th arrondissement of Paris: a relaxed atmosphere, no fuss, good brasserie dishes and a warm décor. You will enjoy your food and wine surrounded by bottles, and you feel right at home. We have a particular fondness for the hand-cut steak tartare with fries and the duck parmentier: timeless French brasserie classics that always delight and won't break the bank.
Some lovely wines to accompany everything — our choice fell on Les Meyssonniers from Chapoutier. A reference one often finds in this type of establishment, and it does not disappoint.
Le 6 Paul Bert - 6 rue Paul Bert Paris 11
An excellent address that has been refurbished for its reopening with chef Pauline Séné! Another former Top Chef contestant excelling in a restaurant you rush to visit.
New décor: retro café tables, zinc bar, concrete walls… A very pleasant atmosphere with a view of the kitchen!
A very warm welcome, a varied wine list featuring estates of varying renown, but you always find something to your liking.
Starter featuring butternut squash, chestnut, dill, confit shallot and almond, as well as tarama: an absolutely killer dish, perfectly seasoned and wonderfully paired with the Nuage Blanc du Domaine du 7 cuvée (Anjou).
For the main course, Veal Sweetbreads Aillaud! Delicious veal sweetbreads (and we have high standards in that regard) paired with a superb cuvée from Laura Aillaud - Amorcito, which, beyond the rhyme, accompanied our dish perfectly. A fine blend of syrah, carignan, grenache and grenache blanc to thrill us in this restaurant!
Plénitude, Arnaud Donckele - 8 quai du Louvre Paris 1st
Just WOW.
If you ever get the chance to visit this restaurant, it is clearly worth the trip.
A magnificent menu in a fantastic setting — Chef Donckele knows how to delight his guests and even invites you to move around the restaurant during the tasting…
A succession of delicious dishes and an ecstasy of unforgettable wines:
Sardine, leek, Tagetes
Market Garden Medley
Langoustine, squash, rosemary
Scallops, Seaweed, Caviar
All while enjoying a fabulous Rully 1er Cru Le Meix Cadot from Dureuil-Janthial — wonderful!
Poultry, Viroflay, Soft Apple
Hare à la Royale: not on the menu — a little surprise from the chef on the fly!
For the cheese course, we move to a small cheese corner where we are served whatever we wish: there is an extraordinary selection and wheels of indecent proportions.
All accompanied by a delicious wine from Italy from the Foradori estate (Sgarzon Teroldego 2016), a great fine wine from the Dolomites — absolutely stunning.
A little nod to the chef's origins, before we move on to a trou Normand enjoyed in the kitchens. Another brief stroll to aid digestion and immerse ourselves in the heart of the restaurant.
For dessert, staying true to Arnaud Donckele's roots: affectionate Normandy — apple, cinnamon, calvados, or a magnificent chocolate and pecan dessert. Petits fours with coffee, naturally.
Heartfelt congratulations. It requires a rather significant outlay, but it is a unique experience and dishes you will remember for the rest of your life.
Alliance - Paris 5, 5 Rue de Poissy
A magnificent address in the Parisian Latin Quarter! 1 Michelin star for chef Toshitaka Omiya at this magnificent restaurant!
Discover the superb menu we were treated to:
Raw oyster, roquefort and granny smith apple
Pâté en Croûte: pheasant, wood pigeon and duck foie gras
Potato gnocchi, Krystal caviar and white wine sauce
Black-legged poularde larded with lobster coral: broth of thighs and lobster claw; roasted supreme, stuffed cabbage and shell jus
Mallard duck, beetroot in a salt crust and royal sauce
Smoked chocolate, milk chocolate cream
Petits fours
Absolutely stunning!
We enjoyed excellent wines there: if the standard was high on the plate, it was equally high in the glass!
Jacques Carillon, Puligny Montrachet 1er Cru Les Referts 2013: a superb nose of citrus, white flowers, fresh butter, a hint of hazelnut and a pronounced mineral backbone. It is very lovely. On the palate, it is precise and taut, with a beautiful freshness and a saline touch, as well as a few subtle notes from the ageing that add complexity. A true delight.
Joseph Drouhin Beaune 1er Cru Clos des Mouches 2000: we follow up with another superb white!
By the way, a little anecdote: Clos des Mouches gets its name from the beehives of the winegrowers that were located on this plot — "Mouche" being the more noble way of saying "bee" in the past.
Parenthesis closed, now on to the sensations: it is honeyed, with hints of almond and lemongrass, intense flavours of toasted almonds and hazelnuts. Excellent!
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Sylvie Esmonin Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru Clos Saint Jacques 2014:
On the nose, it is an explosion of dark fruits (blackcurrant, blackberry), notes of violet, black pepper and a touch of well-integrated oak — already very enticing! The palate is structured and powerful, with silky tannins and a beautiful freshness, as well as a certain minerality, lending great balance to this fine wine!
Auguste Clape Cornas 2013:
Superb — powerful dark fruits, pepper, leather, smoke… Very typical of the granitic terroir of Cornas. The tannins are still present but elegant, with fine notes of tapenade and graphite, also characteristic of the terroir.
Vieux Château Certan 1989:
1989 is a particularly outstanding vintage. Vieux Château Certan being a very great wine from the Right Bank in Pomerol, close to Pétrus, it is no exception to the rule of the great 1989 vintage! It has developed exceptional finesse over time, while retaining fabulous concentration and richness with all the aromas of evolved Bordeaux wines that we love: undergrowth, tobacco, a chocolatey and mentholated character, iron, blood… We appreciate it immensely!
And for dessert, nothing quite like a fine Port, even more so when it has some age: Porto Colheita 1937 — magnificent intense aromas of citrus and dried fruits, apricot. It is juicy and velvety, rounding off this wonderful dinner in style and beauty!
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