Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Paris - French classic dishes are once again back on menus..Hurrah!

Enough of the fancy, pretentious, minimal , foreign inspired, fusion nonsense   on French menus.
A new crop ( actually old restaurants) are putting old French classics (( and cheap) back on the menus. Hurrah!! It's about time.
One of my favorite places in Paris, Chez Julian ( has been converted from an upper-class brasserie) to a modest eatery with only French classic dishes in a stunning settling. 


Until late is was impossible to find good French onion soup or sole meuniere on Paris menus. Oh, there was still a few like my go to bistro in the 7e, La Fontaine de Mars.  
But recently, there has been a score of restaurants highlighting French traditional classic dish and affordable prices. 
Now, restaurants such as Bouillon Julien are offering plates of Veal blanquette, roast chicken and fries, calf's sweetbread and pot-au-feu that are Delicious, simple, honest and stripped of all pretense. The dishes are not pretty: such as a plate of steak with peppercorn sauce ( maybe splodges of sauce all over the dishes rim, BUT BUT this is the kind of meal I have been looking for, a comfort food simple, good and price-wise a bargain. reminiscent of Parisian Sunday Dinners.

https://www.bouillon-julien.com/menu



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