20 November 2014

Un Restaurant, toujours un restaurant

Another feature of the Rue des Lions-Saint-Paul (on the corner of the Rue Saint-Paul) is this restaurant called Mères et Filles — Mothers and Daughters. There seems to be a restaurant on almost every street corner in Paris.


At Mères et Filles, the menu includes quite a few exotic touches. Wasabi, a cheeseburger, Black Angus beef, chimichurri sauce, Thai Tom yum sauce. Curried monkfish with plantain chips and sweet potatoes. "Fish and chips" (en anglais dans le texte). Cheesecake with speculos cookies (the crust, I assume). Tarte Tatin (well, that's not really exotic...).


And wine by the glass. This is France, after all. Maybe I should have been more patient and not had lunch elsewhere.

6 comments:

  1. I've never heard of "Dry Aged Beef"....
    but I presume it is long hung...
    therefore very tender... with a very "gamey" taste...
    vunderbar!!
    As for Black Angus beef...
    the best there is...
    marbled with fat all the way through...
    great flavour...
    but not too healthy as an everyday meal!!
    Makes a great beef sausage, too...
    very moist, tender and more'ish...

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    1. Thanks Ken, that's an interesting piece! Interesting also that "Dry Aged Beef" is in English, I suspect a term originating in the US but the distinction is a useful one. "Tigre qui pleure" or Weeping Tiger is another Thai style, with chilies and very spicy, which will completely overwhelm the flavour of well-aged beef. The texture should be good, though. P&T

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  3. It's funny to see the odd English word thrown in here and there (I totally missed "fish and chips"), but, then, I guess it's like our restaurants here that put, "soup du jour", or other little tidbits in French or German or Spanish :)

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  4. I'll try the cuisse de canard, svp. There is a variety of cuisines for sure, I wonder if the food is really good. Maybe you'll give it a try sometime. No need to serve falafel is there? There are at least two busy restos not far away.

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  5. "Cheesecake with speculos cookies (the crust, I assume)"....
    not necessarily, Ken, my Dutch brewing friend called the mix of spices speculoos...
    and brewed a rather tasty, dark brew using the mix in the boiling of the wort.
    But, you can also get the mix as a spread...
    and they've also found a way of selling the broken biscuits...
    crushed up a bit more and sold as "sprinkles"...
    so, I think you will have to go back and eat at "Mum and her gals"...
    and discover what that cheezkake waz allabout!!
    And enjoy a nice pavé of Aberdeen Angus... hung properly...
    as well...
    as if you'd need the excuse!!

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