Café-restaurant

 

 

Most Paris cafés are also restaurants that serve meals all day long.

Above: a sharing lunch

 Le Vrai Paris

33 rue des Abbesses 75018 

 On the table:

Salmon mango tartare

Crunchy Vietnamese nems

Baked camembert w/truffles

Fried prawns w/smoked paprika aïoli

Jambon Bellota platter

Frites maison / mixed salads 

A chilled summery rosé

Truffled Tuesday

 A terrace lunch of pasta with truffles and a crisp white Sancerre at a Left Bank café-restaurant.

 

Truffling

Cheeses marbled with aromatic black truffe have taken over Paris fromageries and are gravitating to many more places besides the apéro planche: fondues, omelets, mac-cheese, pizza, risotto....

 

Below: grilled (truffle) cheese sandwiches

 

 

Truffle shuffle

Specialty shops selling hard-to-find ingredients are now open.

Above: view from inside La Maison de la Truffe, Place de la Madeleine

On its own

In Italy pasta is usually a starter, not main, course, as in the U.S. But this foie gras-filled ravioli with a white truffle cream sauce would be an exception.

Where to find it
August newsletter

A burger in Paris

Le Cheeseburger, all the rage when it made its Paris debut years ago, has quietly taken its place on many French menus and tables and apparently is here to stay.

Below: it's obscene, it's expensive, it's French - but it's not in Paris

- It's in this month's newsletter -

Plus:

A marvelous thing happened waiting for Pancake Sisters to open ...

Monday.