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Wow. How bizarre.

Does the guy really go to the Verre Vole?

Is the wine list at L'Ami Louis really so great?

And he claims to like the list at Vivant??? Is it even possible that he's been (he doesn't claim it directly)?
 
OK, I really read this, I'm not having some was-standing-behind-a-car-exhaust-pipe-too-long experience.

Aux Deux Amis? That place is like ragged sweaters and hand-rolled cigarettes, with a natural wine list to match, by the sweat of vignerons' feet.

Others are of similar natural tone, incl. Vivant and Le Verre Volé.

Choice line: "One of my favorite Chateauneuf du Papes from La Vieille Julienne can be found here, as can some terrific Macon whites from Domaine Valette and some organically produced Beaujolais from Lapierre."

I've fallen, and I can't get up.
 
Bad enough he touts Bibou in Philadelphia. Now he's pushing the kinky wine lists of Paris. Alice better look out next he'll be on the prowl for natural wine lovers.
 
Plenty of people in the trade will vouch that the private Parker often behaves quite a bit differently than the public version.
 
I once ordered a bottle of old Dauvissat at Veritas to be told that it had just been sold to Helen Turley and John Wetlaufer.

But the Gouty One secretly drinks Courtois? I just don't see it.
 
I think this is the end. Those guys pushed shitty wines to the masses to keep the good stuff for themselves. Now we're fucked.

On the upside I might finally get to try some first growths in a few years when six-bottle allocations of Puzelat are in four figures.
 
I am having a really hard time picturing the interaction that must have taken place between guest and proprietor at Vivant (and I feel the latter would have recognized the former).
 
According to my boss who has just returned from Paris, the buzz in the restaurant scene in Paris is everything "Brooklyn". It may be time to just stay home.
 
originally posted by JasonA:
Eat and drink localAccording to my boss who has just returned from Paris, the buzz in the restaurant scene in Paris is everything "Brooklyn". It may be time to just stay home.
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Some years ago, my partner and I were driving through Connecticut. We stopped at a little roadside stand to buy some fresh tomatoes and other seasonal goodies. The fellow also had some really nice-looking mozzerella cheese there so we picked one up. While we were paying the fellow who runs the stand commented on how good the cheese is, that it was made by an Italian family, and that he brought it to the stand himself direct from Brooklyn....
 
originally posted by JasonA:
Eat and drink localAccording to my boss who has just returned from Paris, the buzz in the restaurant scene in Paris is everything "Brooklyn". It may be time to just stay home.
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I think this is true. My friend from Verre Vole made it to Isa before me and raved about it. I do see many similarities in the Paris scene (e.g, Au Passage, Septime, Verre Vole) and many of the new Brooklyn Restaurants.

I know I will probably get shit for this but Inaki is at the center of a movement that has spread from Paris to Brooklyn (I would also include San Francisco) of top chefs abandoning Michelin Starred expensive restaurants to cook in smaller places with reasonable prices and great, mostly natural wines.

Back to the topic at hand what the F#@K is going on Lyle Fass offered a California Chardonnay yesterday and Parker is raving about Verre Vole!
 
originally posted by Robert Dentice:
I know I will probably get shit for this...
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Who would do such a thing?

Anyway, I agree that the Le Fooding movement did spread that trend. But it might have been Senderens who preceded Iñaki in the uprooting-starred-resto-in-favor-of-bistro trend.

(Not that Senderens, the restaurant, is very down-homey, but it isn't Lucas Carton.)
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Robert Dentice:
I know I will probably get shit for this...
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Who would do such a thing?

Anyway, I agree that the Le Fooding movement did spread that trend. But it might have been Senderens who preceded Iñaki in the uprooting-starred-resto-in-favor-of-bistro trend.

(Not that Senderens, the restaurant, is very down-homey, but it isn't Lucas Carton.)
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Interesting, when did Senderens opens? If you go back to the 1980s my dear friend Chef Olympe Versini was the first Female Chef to get a Michelin Star and then a second and she gave it up to open a casual bistro around 1989.

Casa Olympe
 
originally posted by Robert Dentice:
Interesting, when did Senderens opens? If you go back to the 1980s my dear friend Chef Olympe Versini was the first Female Chef to get a Michelin Star and then a second and she gave it up to open a casual bistro around 1989.
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Senderens opened in 2005, I think.

I didn't know that about Olympe Versini—I've often heard good things about Casa Olympe, but have yet to eat there.
 
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