{"id":340,"date":"2012-04-13T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=340"},"modified":"2012-04-13T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T20:42:07","slug":"taillevent-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Taillevent in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most spectacular meals we have ever had (and we have had a few!) was at Taillevent in Paris (the exact address is 15 rue Lamennais, 75008 Paris; 01-44-95-15-01).\u00a0\u00a0 We opted not to do the tasting menu so that we could taste more dishes, and the dishes were universally excellent.<\/p>\n

We started off with the amuse-bouche, which were goug\u00e8res, a Gruy\u00e8re cheese biscuit.<\/p>\n

\"gougeres\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For appetizers, the choices were split between the artichoke soup with ravioli and an egg on top and the foie gras terrine served with brioche.\u00a0 (It was lovely being in a country where no one saw anything wrong with producing, cooking, and eating foie gras, but I digress.)<\/p>\n

\"artichoke<\/a>\"foie<\/a><\/p>\n

While the foie gras was delicious, the consensus was that the artichoke soup was the winner.<\/p>\n

Entrees split between the rack of lamb and scallops served with black truffles.<\/p>\n

\"rack<\/a>\"scallops<\/a><\/p>\n

This was an easy choice.\u00a0 The lamb was excellent, but the scallops (and especially the black truffles) were spectacular.<\/p>\n

Desserts were more evenly split.\u00a0 The selections were chocolate souffl\u00e9 (topped with edible gold), a chocolate cake (which is too simple a term to describe the loveliness of the dish), a poached apple with apple sorbet, and pineapple cream topped with gold leaf.<\/p>\n

\"chocolate<\/a>\"chocolate<\/a><\/p>\n

\"poached<\/a>\"pineapple<\/a><\/p>\n

No clearcut winner emerged here, especially as there were chocolate lovers and chocolate-tolerators in the bunch.<\/p>\n

Dinner concluded with some lovely petit-fours and homemade caramels.<\/p>\n

\"petit<\/a>\"caramels\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Let me just say that even if you don\u2019t like caramels (and I am not a particular fan), you would sell your soul for these homemade caramels.\u00a0 They were melt-in-your-mouth amazing.<\/p>\n

The other thing that made dining at Taillevent such a wonderful experience was the service.\u00a0 It is clearly a high-end restaurant, and we were clearly Americans and tourists and with two children (a 13-year old and a 10-year old) in tow.\u00a0 We could not have been made to feel more welcome.\u00a0 All of us were treated like a part of the extended family, and the kids were warmly welcomed and made to feel at home.\u00a0 They were even both served an after-dinner Armagnac.\u00a0 (Clearly, while the legal drinking age in Paris is officially 18, the law is regarded flexibly.)<\/p>\n

The restaurant is definitely an A++ for the quality of food and the service.\u00a0 It was a memorable meal and evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most spectacular meals we have ever had (and we have had a few!) was at Taillevent in Paris (the exact address is 15 rue Lamennais, 75008 Paris; 01-44-95-15-01).\u00a0\u00a0 We opted not to do the tasting menu so that we could taste more dishes, and the dishes were universally excellent. We started off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[38,331,39],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","tag-paris","tag-restaurants","tag-taillevent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-5u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}