Pirouette in the 1st is a place that has pleased us since it opened this summer; it's inventive, seasonal and comprehensive while staying in reasonable price ranges. Today Colette and I ate with a moderately new friend who's a Medievil manuscript scholar and had a delightful meal all around.
Our fried started out with the egg in a trumpets of death mushroom/artichoke soup (see before and after) while I had the "porchetta" but this of rabbit and chorizo bits and espilette - spicy (to my taste) with slices of heirloom radishes and beets.
Then Colette had the St Jacques (what else?) with potatoes, foie gras fennel seeds and shaved fennel stalks and mustard dresssing; our friend had the pigeon with salsifis; and I had sweetbreads with duxelles and a potatoe galette; all dishes were superior.
For dessert Colette had the rice pudding with yummy nut thingies and caramel sauce and our friend, the delightful grenache chocolate. Our wine was a super Cotes du Rhone.
With two bottles of it, two coffees and an 8 E well-deserved supplement but no bottled water, our bill turned out to be the equivalent of 104 E a couple. Decibel level = 81.1 but strangely it was very pleasant.
