41, rue de lille (7)
Tel: 01-58-62-10-08
AMBIANCE/DÉCOR
I’ve read that Les Climats is housed in a former dormitory for unmarried post office employees. It has been a different restaurant since the advent of this Diary, and evidently several other restaurants before that.
The space is large and elegant, with a separate bar area, an outdoor garden and a bright garden room, plus a large dining room. The crowd at a recent lunch would have filled innumerable other nearby spots, but the space is too large for its own good. It needs a larger crowd to infuse it with the energy it requires.
It will be worth checking in again at dinner, a la carte or a 75€ six course tasting menu. Only Burgundy wines are served – many by the glass.
Positive changes in management, kitchen and service. The public seems to have responded.
FOOD
Two choices for each of three courses at lunch. Inventive, complex, good to look at and carefully prepared. Mushrooms with soft poached egg or octopus salad over burrata and sautéed eggplant, pheasant with brussel sprouts or a large portion of poached merlu, each with sauce and puree of parsnips. Very nice food in comfortable surroundings.
New chef, but food still outstanding.
SERVICE
Our waiter tried hard and meant well, but with a slight case of attitude. By observation, service, at lunch at least, might suffer from too little business (the restaurant has only been open since April) and a consequent reluctance to notch up service to match the food and wines.
Now, service and greeting couldn’t be better.
PRICE
36€/45€ lunch, plus a la carte, with two glasses of wine, water and coffee, 107€ for two.
At dinner, 75€ tasting, plus a la carte. The tasting menu appears to be the way to go.
Also a separate bar area with tapas-type menu.
(2x) (2013-2014)