Avoid the Saturday night large invasive tables

We announced mid-December in these columns the opening of Toyo as a table to monitor. A first made dinner a few days after opening (December 22) we had highly impressed. A second more recent we have confirmed the talent of Nakayama Toyomitsu, former personal Cook of Kenzo. Its menu: 55 euros, begins with a fun mouth croquignolet, consisting of fried bouquets and whelks, and goes then without dead time. Small portions of marinated halibut from kombu leaves, thin slices of boutargue (melting and little salt), followed by a semi-cooked Santiago and leek and chicken broth; a salad eggs Japanese, grilled shiitake and foie gras (judicious association); of deposit of beef stew. and, finally, to a generous soup tureen of yellow crab risotto. Dessert is not indented: a kind of Eastern pastry made of grapes, lentils, coated of kuzu, served with a granité white cheese. A meal end and delicate nuances while and perfect balance of flavours. When booking, require a square in front of the counter to track the development of the menu from end to end.

Installed to the 1erétage of the brasserie Olivier fleets, fleet O.Trement, new and comfortable lounge where operates a Brazilian bartender who shake cocktails with finesse, is is associate advice from the food researcher"Frederick Grasser Hermé for imagine a map that could attract the fashionista. Furnaces, Nicolas Vernier, ex-Café Minotti, is music the ideas of the Lady (the gifted Chief also has its own revenues, or even this wonderful shock ' o, a dark chocolate ganache already appreciated in the Minotti coffee). The milk-fed veal way red cow parmesan carpaccio, the blanquette of veal of MOM fleets and toothfish (fish of the southern seas) take the shock. Malin chic suggetion marriage of bone marrow and caviar (26 euros for two small bone marrow with a bit of "black gold"). The place is hefty.

Most agreed, but fortifying, is the Cueva del Diablo, Argentine restaurant held by the son of the owner of El Palenque (rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève). Our gaucho of the pampas is installed in the walls of an old restaurant Caribbean after transformed it substantive fundamentally. Iron lance of the House, this is of course the Argentina meat, whose reputation is large, it irrigates of wines from the same country. Before testing the waters of the "bife", why not a small appetizers Empanadas (turnovers filled with spinach and parmesan, or beef meat, raisins and egg), are to be known, but good slightly spicy Argentine sausages that are watering sauce chimichurri (vinegar, herbs...) have the respondent. If it is two, the complete parrillada is tempting. It includes: Sweetbreads of calf, veal kidney, Argentine sausage, black pudding and beef through, otherwise the cube served roll with a salad, but that can accompany delicious Donuts of corn (with supplement) is the probity. Avoid the Saturday night (large invasive tables).

The Restaurant of the Luxembourg, led by the same team as coffee Oudinot Accords, is the new table to the mode of this opulent and social area. There are also many parents that children affected by the "cool" side of (modern bistro décor) rather than by the simplicity of the kitchen: tartare of sea bream with green lemon and fennel Parmentier of duck, beef tab, etc.

The far East, Japanese ran to Saint-Germain-des-Prés, opened a design schedule in the "golden triangle" East extreme Montaigne, 21, rue Bayard (Tel: 01.47.20.91.58). Refined décor and map based on that of the parent. Customer "to good Parisian chic" in the evening, radio at breakfast (RTL is in the face). Menu breakfast, evening 13, 28, 36 euros 40 euros.