Sur Le Fil in the 14th, midway between Metros Raspail and Vavin, is a place I ate at with trusted friends a few weeks ago and loved, but today with Colette, it, really he, the Chef, Jean-Marie Courtel, ex of Itineraires, dazzled us in ways he hadn't before. Also dazzling were the flag buntings on the building across the street.
The "menus" are an astonishing 17 and 22 E but the carte (which reserving via LaFourchette gets one 20% off) is even more impressive. We labored over our choices.
We had, altogether:
- a perfectly sourced, cooked and marinated whole mackerel covered with many tempured veggies, best among them - the spring onions with stalks,
- a quite acceptable (I loved it, Colette demurred) piece of merlu with chopped veggies,
- a plate of what was really an assortment of sauteed and raw, chopped and whole veggies with a confited poulpe on top and
- a rhubarb and strawberry, with a flan, dessert.
Our bill, with a bottle and glass of a Cotes de Blaye that Colette insists that I commend the restaurant on, no bottled water, good bread and 2 coffees, was 83.10 E.