Les Papilles

Bertrand Bluy's bistrot is a haunt of hearty dudes who likes a good fight on the field (rugby field, they're from Biarritz) and who are also pretty good on the menu side.
To be fair, you won't have much say on the menu choice as there is only a single preset menu designed everyday from what Bertrand finds on the daily market!
But when it comes to wine, you'll have to pick up yourself your own bottle from the 300+ references' wine list and get it directly out of the cellar... this should take up enough of your energy!


Well done: you can leave with your wine (carrying bag offered) if you didn't completely finish your bottle (this is not such an obvious feature in french restaurant)
Very well done!: 28,50€ for a 4 courses menu - you can't beat this value for money.
awesome deal: the food is gorgeous and plenty, the ambiance is friendly, and your waiters kindness is contagious...
Little down grade, I find the 6€ mark up for your diner wine from the take-away price a little expensive.
p.s. strongly consider making a reservation a few days ahead as the place is always fully booked.

Les Papilles (means the taste buds)
Genre : bistrot / terroir
Adress : 30, rue Gay-Lussac
75005 Paris
Tel : 01 43 25 20 79
RER B Luxembourg
Set-up Menu : 28,50 €

Viva Afaria ! the holiday returm surprise

Paris, XVth borrough, the average as usual Paris, a street like every other street, another façade, not worse, not any better, a door you push, a table waiting for you and this special moment when the first dish sits in front of you... looks like an ordinary black pudding with a mustard crust. Sincerely, reading the menu you'd expect nothing more, nothing less but, suddenly your plate experience a big bang, a strike of lightning, a boomerang. You feared for something heavy? it's light, you expected a starter? it's a dessert! This apple black pudding is better than re-invented! it's one of the best dish of the season, an angel passing by, already an emotion, soon a great memory. Later? some other dishes, some other pleasures, a charming setting by trying so hard to please you, An exctatic audience, et the revelation of this stunning young couple. The best table of the holiday returm.

This paper is freely translated from a chronic by Emmanuel Rubin in the Figaroscope.
C'est nouveau

AFARIA
15, rue Desnouettes, 75015 Paris
Tél. : 01 48 56 15 36
Everyday but Sunday and Monday (lunch)
Metro : Convention