This wine bar cum resto is friendly, youthful, priced correctly and as the logo indicates-all dishes are made on site with fresh products.
This wine bar cum resto is friendly, youthful, priced correctly and as the logo indicates-all dishes are made on site with fresh products.
The owner is a colleague and friend of the ebullient Amalie of Au Bon Coin so I was prepared for a good experience. The young chef David Gutman started me with a buratta cremeuse et sa fine purée d’artichaut camus-creamy burrata with truffle oil on a bed of roquette with a mountain of pureed artichoke. A refreshing, fruity 2013 Marsanne from Julien Pilon was the perfect foil.
Next up was a cabillaud en pavé, peau croustillante-roast cod with potato puree and a very provençal sauce of olives, peppers and capers. A 2012 Macon-Villages from the Brot Brothers was selected from the hand-picked selection of 20 wines by the glass.
A slab of bleu d’Auvergne with a spicy red from Languedoc was a simple end to a leisurely lunch.
If you have a big appetite and like your steaks man-sized the you’ll love Le Morceau du Roi for two, unless you are a king (think Farouk,) weighing in at 1 kilo for 58 euros. Bowls of crunchy, matchstick frites are the side dish.
Daily menus are 20 euros: entrée, plat ou plat, dessert.