Auberge Le Quincy/Chez Bobosse

That was nice to get off of my chest...

Mon Vieil Ami (Mushroom Menu/Dégustation Cepes)

Adrien and Adrian

Hot and cold mushroom salad

Filet of Saint Pierre with Cepes

Veal sweetbreads with cepes

Tarte fine with mushrooms and melted tome cheese

Les Fables de la Fontaine in GOGO

Les Fables de la Fontaine

Chez l'Ami Jean in GoGo

Saint Adrian Day (L'Ami Jean)

I must be the only gastronome who, until yesterday, hadn't tried out that temple of bistronomy, Chez l'Ami Jean (hell, even the New York Times and Condé Nast gang found out about it...) . Although the service sucked the big one, the 32€, three-course lunch menu was good value. The marinated tuna fish, served "bleu" with figs on a bed of perfectly seasoned salad was probably the highlight of the lunch, followed by a half pigeon cooked in a casserole with clams and crawfish (although far too messy to eat, it was served with Wet-Naps!). Dessert of vanilla cream with apple liqueur jelly was good, though nothing to write home about. Stéphane Jégo came out from time to time to chat with diners, yell at his staff, or discuss the France/Argentina rugby match of the night before, but the service was VERY long, and the table next to us (habituées), waited more than an hour after ordering their mushroom fricassé to get served. "Ils sont en arrete de travail ou quoi?!", they muttered.

Special shout out goes to the most satanic restaurant toilet in Paris (pictures below).

Chez Eux

Foie gras salad with delicious homemade maigret de canard

Veal chop with mushrooms

Duck fat cooked potatoes

Paris.Rugby.Airplane.Flyover.

Atelier de Joel Robuchon

It's been a couple of years since I've visited the Atelier, one of my very favourite establishments in Paris. Everything was great, especially the cochon fermier, the unbeatable bacon, cabbage-leaf wrapped , foie-gras stuffed pigeon, stellar gazpacho, insane jabugo. And to be in the presence of Carlos (not?), Tof, Austen, and my new friend Béatrice made the evening worthwhile.

Rooftop dangernight

When in Rome.... (Skip's Hamburgers, Merrimac, MA)

All my friends know I take special care of what I eat, and that rarely includes junk food, but being in the Land of Bush, I had to make an exception when someone told me about SKIP'S a 60-year old purveyor of exceptional hamburgers, and a restaurant I have heard about for many years, but had never tried. Suffice to say, the bacon double cheeseburger was absolutely superb, with top quality minced beed, tangy cheese and homecooked bread. A gastroexperience in an unexpected place...

Lakeside Maine

Away from the hustle and bustle of Paris, here are a few images from the private lakeside villa I've been staying at for the last few days... no internet, mobile phone coverage, just peace and quiet ... three days almost drove me crazy......! Where's the action??!

Adrian does New England

Rural NH is scary. Scarier than I remember. Lots of four-wheel drive vehicles, trailer trash, bikers, tattoed yobbos, crap food, sensationalist media, flying/biting creatures, commercials, FAT people, interminable road-side fast food establishments, weird shit.... photos/videos soon....

Stop. Drinking. Now.

New Pierre Gagnaire restaurant?

Rumour has it that Gagnaire is opening a new restaurant designed by Per Se's architect Adam Tihany. Staff at Gagnaire's eponymous three-star know something's up, but won't speak, even under the threat of torture, making me think it must be a new Parisian flagship in the wings...

Lao Siam restaurant Belleville

Salad "douce"


Pates Imperiaux


Beef Lemongrass Salad


Salt and Pepper Shrimp



Sorry, crappy mobile photos again - but I was too busy eating to care. Did Krung Thep the night before, which is always fun , but full of Anglos, so tried Lao Siam , which seemed a pretty good Thai (for Paris), but still had its share of loudmouth Yankies and fake Anglos (at least three different tables out of the ten others...)

Good nems. Good "salad douce" (shrimps, grated coconut and banana flowers, fibrous but tasty..), great Thai-style chicken skewers with peanut sauce, ok beef noodles....Cheaper than Madame Shawn and Krung Thep for a similar quality food, so I'd go back

Krung Thep

Raw grey shrimp salad with red chili sauce, Softshell crab roasted in garlic, Coconut shell filled with rice, shrimp, and Thai vermicelli. Satisfying dinner, despite the fact that some Condé Nast and NYT-reading American students comprised half of the dining crowd...(Belleville! The New Undiscovered Paris!! etc etc)

Drinking Harry Potters at the Meurice