After our surprisingly enjoyable meal at Aux Crus de Bourgogne, a place that we had walked past countless times thinking it was a tourist restaurant, I made reservations to return for dinner. This took us past our favorite street in Paris, Rue Montorgueil, which I've written about countless times already.
During this visit, the street had been declared "Rue des Bulles" ("Bubble Street") for the season. Every year, Nicolas Feuillatte Champagne House declares a Rue des Bulles and the street is decorated in balloons that resemble champagne bubbles.
It makes an already lively street seem even more festive.
No matter how many times you've walked down a street, there always seems to be something you never noticed before.
We walked up to Rue Bachaumont and presented at the restaurant. One thing we quickly noticed was that the menu had changed since our last visit and several of the items we enjoyed last time were not available.
The place filled quite quickly……folks seemed to be really getting pretty large meals.
Of course, things started with the baguette with rillette, which the Missus enjoys.
We enjoyed the Vol-au-Vent with mushrooms the last time so we ordered the Bouchee a la Reine, which is basically vol-au-vent with poultry.
We had previously enjoyed the mushroom dishes here, but for some reason this dish was really weak in mushroom flavor and the chicken was super dry. The vol-au-vent was still good though; crisp and buttery.
The Missus enjoyed the Escargot as She did before.
And we got even more baguette for sopping up all that garlicky goodness.
Because we had eaten so much for lunch, we ordered one main to share. We ordered the Sweetbreads and Mushrooms. The mains come with one side and we got the green beans. We weren't prepared for the monstrosity that arrived.
The sauce for the mushrooms were wonderfully flavored, but very gloppy and pasty in texture. The veal sweetbread was massive, dry, tough, and very metallic.
The green beans were undercooked, hard, and in need to more salt.
The service was very prompt and professional.
Well, this was not quite what we expected based on our previous meal. It seems that the menu changes from day to day. Based on this meal, the Missus and I decided that we'd need to see the menu before committing to a meal here. So in the future, since we're usually close by, we'll check out what's being served first.
Aux Crus de Bourgogne
3 Rue Bachaumont
75002 Paris, France
Still, we enjoyed the walk and the always lively Rue Montorgueil.
bummer about the meal, what a festive street though!
J’adore sweetbreads, which I sometimes serve to guests to introduce to them. I don’t know what I would do if I were served that massive hunk of sinewy veal. Hopefully it’s better next time!
Rue Montorgueil is our favorite street in Paris Kat!
Yes, that was kinda weird Dereck.