Reviews of reviews: The week of April 8th, 2013Monday-Tuesday in A Nous Paris, Philippe Toinard reviewed and gave 2/5 dots to the cave a manger Le Zag a vin, 18, rue Duphot in the 1st, closed Saturday lunch, Sundays and Mondays, 01.40.15.06.69, formulas 22 and 27 at lunch, menus 28 and 38 E serving overly creay cream of cauliflower soup, smoked magret, cod and cheesecake and lots of wines in the old Vin Chai Moi space; and Jerome Berger gave 3/5 to two steakhouses whose coodinates have been given before – Ma chere & tendre and Le Boeuf Volant.
Tuesday, Yves Nespoulous, in Le Fooding, reviewed the Edgar, 31, rue Alexandre in the 2nd, 01.40.41.05.69, open 7/7, chef’d by an ex-Petit Cheval de Menage, costing 16-35 E, serving fresh seafood (oysters, clams, herring, cod) and items such as an echine de porc and a bavette as well as rice pudding and home-made ices.
Wednesday in Figaroscope, Emmanuel Rubin reviewed and gave 2 hearts to two places – Leo Dupont, 16, rue de la Grande-Chaumiere in the 6th, 01.43.29.43.31, closed Sundays and Mondays running one 35-40 E without wine, for items such as a haddock tart, lieu jaune and a salad of dates and oranges as well as Les Petits Plats d’Emile, coordinates given before. He also tested the one-heart Broken Arm in the 3rd and Slice in the 2nd. He gave a busted/broken heart to the Lobster Bar in the 1st.
The Dossier this week by Hugo de Sainte Phalle and Colette Monsat was on business meals at:
Sola
Pirouette
Cobea
Terroir Parisien
Les Tablettes de Jean-Louis Nomicos
Garance
Le Coq Rico
And Francois Simon tried one of them, Cobea, which he thought was good and you should go to.
This week’s L’Express had a review by Charles Patin O’Coohoon of La Grande Cremerie, coordinates given before; Anne-Laure Pham covered the Lobster Bar, ditto; Marie-Amal Bizalion wrote up Lumineux Café Edmond by Serena in Marseille and Francois-Regis Gaudry went to Pierre Sang Boyer in the 11th.
