5.0 Le Village, 11 Rue du Laos in the 15th, 07.86.87.30.95/01.75.50.44.89, closed weekends (Metro: La Motte-Picquet-Grenelle) is bright and shiny as a nickel and situated not more than a few meters from Le Village Suisse, that magnet for antique hunters.
They have an exhaustive carte and a quite interesting smaller "menu", that is long on meat and South-West products and short on stuff that would appeal to Colette.
My dining partner had her heart set on some oysters, but alas, they were out and she asked if they had a mixed salad - well, no, but how about salad with chipirons a la plancha? "OK." Wrong. They were really not great. I, on the other hand, had a nice Ducassian jar of jazzed-up-spicy rillettes of canard on toasts that I quite enjoyed.
Then she had the beef tartare that she said was "swimming in sauce" and I had a filet of bar that was also swimming in an awful tasting sauce which the quinoa could not absorb; she gave up, but I bravely separated the fish from the dreaded liquid and enjoyed it by itself. The frites, however, exceeded the French National Gold Fries Standard; crisp, not-fatty, not oversalted and quite tasty.
For dessert I ordered the strawberry tarte - but again - OUT, so we settled for a shared pistachio macaroon/cream thing with raspberies and a "soup" of mango, pineapple, lemon and orange that was quite good. With a bottle and a glass of wine, no bottled water and two coffees, our bill was 71.40 E.
Go? For a late night coffee and dessert if you live nearby, OK, otherwise no.
