Now, This is What I Call Meat & Potatoes! - Tuesday, 4 March

Lunch today at Au Bourguignon, just down the block, started with a big gamba (prawn) with a lovely rouille sauce, carrots, a puff pastry boat containing a prawn croquette, celery chiffonade, and some herb crème fraîche.  Tasty!

Then a quintessential meat and potatoes! This was a slightly smaller variation of their signature Boeuf Bourguignon (but still almost more than I could eat), with boiled potatoes, dried parsnip "chips" and an unctuous just-fatty-enough beef demi-glace. The beef was impossibly tender - I could barely spear it with my fork (they should have given me a big spoon instead!), and the steak knife was an almost silly implement (just needed it for shoving food onto my fork and cutting the potatoes). Warming and rib-sticking!

With a small "La Parisienne" tap beer and an espresso, it came to just 33 euros.  Such a deal!