Le Lulli, 4, Rue de Valois in the 1st continues to be a favorite of ours and when a writer-friend sent me a list of places she had to review this spring for a new edition of a guidebook she co-writes - I flashed on Le Lulli and we were off. The menu wasn't all that different from our last time but the wine was, courtesy of our friend. Here's the panoply of dishes:
- an amuse of smoked salmon, potato, a pot-au-feu ball and foie gras mini-cigar
- an amuse of langoustine mousse with a cream soup
- carrots with mango puree
- a bouillon of rockfish with tangy rouille
- scallops
- poularde stuffed with foie gras
- a sorbet and sugary bits of many colors and flavors
- Chef Bournot's version of a classic St-Honore
- mignardises.
Once again we were overwhelmed by the welcome (by the chef and staff), the setting, the service, the food and the warmth of the chef and general manager towards us all.
Our bill, which was skewed due to our friend's picking up the wine bill, was 113 E for the other two of us.