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15 D5
Le Timbre
a modern touch
3 rue Ste-Beuve, 6ème • 01 45 49 10 40
Open lunch & dinner Mon-Fri, dinner only Sat
Garret-like Le Timbre serves refined French food (roast
pigeon with mango and ginger chutney, Jerusalem
artichoke purée with truffle oil) with a dash of the
British, thanks to its Mancunian owner. Cleverly
arranged around the long counter, the dining room
encourages conviviality. Moderate
16 F3
La Table d'Aude
country helpings
8 rue de Vaugirard, 6ème • 01 43 26 36 36
Open lunch & dinner Tue-Fri, dinner only Sat, lunch only Mon
Bernard Pautou's welcome is as warm as his
cassoulet
- a robust duck, pork and bean stew for
which the Aude, a region in Languedoc-Roussillon in
southern France, is renowned. This is no-nonsense
country food - just the thing to keep winter chills and
hunger pangs at bay. Moderate
15 D3
Le Salon d'Hélène
southwest-side story
4 rue d'Assas, 6ème • 01 42 22 00 11
Open lunch & dinner Wed-Sat, dinner only Tue
French chefs in general don't tend to stray too far from
formality - but there are exceptions, and Hélène
Darroze is one of them. In an effort to make her south-
western cooking more accessible, she opened Le Salon
d'Hélène, a more reasonably priced, more casual
eatery on the floor below her Michelin two-star restau-
rant. Rather than a three-course-plus-cheese meal,
Darroze took to tapas - she hails from France's Basque
country, and the Spanish influence is evident in her
cooking. Graze on a range of beautifully presented
small dishes (oyster with foie gras 'ice cream', lan-
goustine tempura, duck liver with dried fruit) from the
comfort of a plush pink sofa, bar-style high chairs with
raised tables or a banquette loaded with cushions.
Darroze comes from a family of chefs and also spent
time in Alain Ducasse's restaurant in Monte Carlo, so
diners are in capable, and creative, hands. Expensive
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