Le Verre Moutarde in the 17th: "This Guy is More Inventive Than Yesterday's Chef."

This was my third vist to Le Verre Moutarde in the 17th in as many months and they were turning people away.  We got a warm welcome (3 coupes - OK; one old prune) and saw our name was written in chalk on the table - cool!

For firsts, Colette and I had three perfectly sauteed gambas in a wonderful thick soup of petit pois; absolutely yummy.  Then she and our downstair's neighbor for 22 years had the line-caught bar with zucchini and eggplant (which Colette reported as way too al dente) and confited tomatoes and I had a sausage-like rable of rabbit which was way too tiede, with a funny sauce and large portion of warm/hot mushrooms.

For desserts Madame our friend chose the clafoutis with myrtilles and Colette and I both had the pain perdu with acidic ice.  Both great.

With a 46 cl carafe of Petit Chablis and 60 cl's of Cotes de Gascogne, no bottled water, just fine bread thank you and 2 coffees our bill was 116.60 E for three thus 77.74 E a couple.