6.2 Le Tourbillon in the 17th has a bit of a back-story and because I promise my readers I will update information and my rating(s) here goes: I ate there first in February 2010 in their left bank site and felt it merited only a 5.1, slightly above average; then when they moved to the 17th I went in April 2014 and thought it was much better, about a 6.7. But today,....but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Today was the hottest day of the Year so far and by the time we's schl;epped over to the 17th I was dripping and a glass of white Beaujolais was just what we needed. And their amuse-gueules were "very nice" said one of our friends of a couple who have homes in both Paris and San Francisco.
Our firsts were quite delicious: a plate of tomatoes, greens and melted goat cheese on toast and sweetbread bits with girolles and croutons. And another bottle of wine.
Then one of us had a very nice cut of veal and the other three had the jambonnette of stuffed rabbit - a big mistake - because the rabbit was dry as a bone and the jambonnette was unlike any jambonnette I've ever encountered (although much loved by Colette) and we had three servings to get through. By this point we'd switched to a red.
For dessert, we 4 ordered two; a tart of apricots and a tiramisu of chocolate and other flavors - OK, no more than that. The mignardises, were, like the amuses, "quite nice."
Our bill with three bottles of wine, no bottled water and two coffees - 95.45 E a couple.
Conclusion: Not as ordinary a meal as I had in 2010 but not as good as 2 months ago. Too bad.
