Panurge is Jayson Gouzy’s successor to Pantagruel, which will shortly re-open on the rue Richelieu. My first visit is described here. Don’t miss it!
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Looks spectacular! I loved Pantagruel, but seriously too much food for me at this point, and this looks superb to me.
That is an impressive BTG list - nice to have so many choices.
As it happens, we went to Panurge a couple of days before onz did - though I was only aware of it because onz had pointed it out to me!
The carte was the same, but the menu dejeuner was different. We had one of the latter, and also ordered a la carte. So we sampled completely different dishes than onz did.
The yellow jack mackerel was very good:
My wife enjoyed her green asparagus with hollandaise and a quail egg:
Her hunter-style chicken with a side of baby new potatoes was very tasty:
I really enjoyed my beautifully undercooked trout, even if it wasn’t quite as awesome as the dish I had at Brion:
The rice pudding dessert was fine, but nothing special:
I enjoyed my two glasses of wine.
If you are interested in what’s on the menu dejeuner, Panurge is a fantastic bargain. And even with a couple of dishes from the carte, I thought the price was more than reasonable.
We will definitely return.
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Thanks, Andy. Great report. I had dinner there a few days ago and will be reporting on that shortly.
I’m excited, too, about Pantagruel and look forward to trying it when I return to Paris in late summer. But for value, you just can’t beat that lunch menu.
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I’m curious as to where you are and whether we will see reports from there…
I’m leaving shortly for five weeks in San Francisco, but (a) so far I’ve only been writing about Paris restaurants, and (b) restaurants in San Francisco are so expensive and not of the quality of what we find in Paris that we rarely go out. Most of our other foodie friends in SF have likewise largely stopped going out there because of the prices (and most of us can bear it, but still don’t like paying those prices).
I have one, possibly two, more Paris restaurants to write up in the next week or so, and then I’ll resume at end of August/beginning of September. I already have several addresses I’m excited to try and that’s without even hearing about new openings.
I had experience with SF and the East Bay continuously from 1982 to 2011 (early residence, later family visits), and then again from 2013 to 2017 when my partner lived in SF. But in the latter period, the mid-range I cherished so much in earlier days had more or less completely hollowed out. There were seriously expensive places and there were new, barely surviving places, which I tried to support but often they were short-lived. We left, not just because of restaurants, but because the city was becoming something we didn’t care to be part of. (And went to NYC, before deciding that about the whole country, and leaving the continent.)
So I understand completely. Enjoy your time in SF, I hope the wildfires stay at bay and the produce is as good as I remember, and I look forward to your fall dispatches.
