18-11-2013
Inside restaurant Table in rue de Prague in Paris, +33.(0)1.43431226. French food and wine journalist Bruno Verjus, decided to move to the other side of the barricade and opened it last spring
A few steps from Place de la Bastille, a neighbourhood teeming with gourmand restaurants, there’s Bruno Verjus’s table. The food journalist was capable of adding a new chapter to the bistronomic saga in the 12th arrondissement. A foodie, the soul behind blog foodintelligence and already a collaborator of Identità Golose and Omnivore, last spring he opened a restaurant in which he puts his skills of self-trained chef to the test, together with a young talent of Japanese origins: Masa Ikuta.
Verjus is not the first to decide to get his hands dirty with pans and creative recipes. And given the result, we can say: bravo! He wanted to fulfil a dream: to cook in a minimalistic, welcoming space, following the concept of sharing. The 35 seats are distributed between small round tables, a counter adjacent to the restaurant and an imperial table at the entrance, to the right. Once seated, all the guests admire the work in the open-view kitchen and, unless there are special requests, the guests are being seated next to each other, without knowing one another, in order to share the food and comment together, and share their opinions.
(photo Paris by mouth)
The lunch menu is simpler: roasted meat cooked on Cornue skewers, platters of cured meet and cheese made in France while at dinner the offer is more structured. The meat suppliers come from France and Flanders and the fish is supplied by Paris’ market, the same goes with all vegetables. Nothing is left to chance: the mise en place is a signature one, there are no tablecloths but there’s a candid and refined linen placemat. All around, steel and bricks prevail, without any interior design snobbism. The team in the dining room and in the kitchen is young and professional. The service is quick and attentive.
Bruno Verjus
To finish, the cake was a tribute to the Tonda delle Langhe hazelnut: Chocolate cream with hazelnuts, salted butter cookies with hazelnuts and hay ice-cream, a nice contrast for the taste buds which had already been excited by the previous dishes.
Table 3, rue de Prague Paris, France +33.(0)1.43431226 Closed on Saturdays and Sundays Tasting menu: 110 euros, 149 including wines
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a graduate in Psychology, she was enchanted by the Identità Golose galaxy. While studying wine is her life, her gourmet vocation is an evolving discovery