6.0 Le Petit Matieu, 55, rue des Vinaigriers in the 10th, 01.46.07.09.49, open 7/7, has been open about a year and word finally reached me to move it up on my "list" - so..... The exterior is the requisite cool, minimalist style now standard and the interior raw wood and slate blue, a long wine list and a tempting chalkboard for apero-stuff and dinners. But we were there for lunch so....
A quick look at the lunch "menu" revealed a forced 2-2-2 choice 18 E - 18 euros folks - for three courses, cannot beat that. And we started off with my new friend ordering toasty veggies with some olive oil and I a veloute of broccoli and kiri (winter squash) - one of the finest soups in my life. For a wine, my friend, a classics Prof who knows his stuff (maybe the Cinese invented wine, butthe Greeks perfected it) chose a very fine Bourgueil (our host Matieu knows a thing or two about wine as well.)
Then my friend ordered the 7-hour lamb that had one of the nicest crispy skins/moist interiors possible with quite decent dauphinois potatoes and I had the grondin (named such because it grunts [gronder] when caught) - see you can learn something every day - with par-cooked leek bits.
We ended with a most fine creme caramel (the caramel sauce was light but packed with taste)
With a bottle and glass of wine, no bottled water and mediocre bread, our bill was 72.90 E.
Go? For prix-qualite it can't be beat. And the decibel level, despite it being packed with hipsters or at least hipster-aged folk, no pesky fellow Yankees, hovered around 78.0 dB.
