No highfalutin, fancy-schmanzy lunch for me today! I decided to try a classic regional resto called
L’Ambassade d’Auvergne, located close to the apartment and recommended by Patricia Wells, whose word I trust implicitly.
If you don’t like pork, don’t go here. On the other hand, if you do….
A small ramekin of terrific pork rillettes with rustic toast were brought for an appetizer.
Then for my first course I had a nice big bowl of creamy, earthy, peppery, well-done Puy lentils cooked with aromatics and served with some finely diced fresh onion and lardons. You’d think that would be enough to ground you, but then came the main course….
A big pork sausage served with a plateful of “Aligot,” a concoction unique to the Auvergne consisting of mashed potatoes with a substantial quantity of cheese beaten in, giving them a stunning elastic quality. Yummy! (Really…no hyperbole here…they were great.)
And hey, after all of that you just have to finish up with a huge spoonful of intense chocolate mousse and some slices of cake.
Not retro – just unchanged. That would be another word for dependable. And I’m fine with that!
22, rue du Grenier Saint-Lazare
http://www.ambassade-auvergne.com/en/
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