Saturday, October 30, 2010

l'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

I had lunch there last week before I went to Italy, and it was pretty amazing.  The space is interesting but the decor is totally bizarre and a little distracting.  I must say, though, it was the best food I've had yet in Paris.
I had an eggplant confit-zucchini-tomate confite-mozzarella 'millefeuille' that had possibly the best mozzarella I've ever eaten; it was somehow fluffy.  I then had veal sweetbreads with a little chard leaf folded around an onion-bacon saute, and a perfectly-reduced jus; it was so good I cried.  And for dessert I had an incredible coffee-chicory affair.  At the bottom was an unsweetened coffee gelee, sprinkled with hazelnut crunch.  On top of that was a scoop of perfect coffee-chicory ice cream, and the whole thing was covered in coffee whipped cream, which was the exact same color as the ice cream.  I hardly could tell where the ice cream stopped and the whipped cream started.  Then there were these paper-thin, melting, bubbly waves of chicory wedged in the top - they were very delicate, crisp, and melted instantly on my tongue.
Highly recommended.

1 comments:

  1. Whoa, dude. I'm trying to taste the onion-bacon saute with the chard leaf. Yes, please.

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