Sunday, August 1, 2010

Dinner in the Marais




A beautifully presented dinner, put together by Sylvie, our very dear Parisian friend and her daughter, Kelly, who's entering the Sorbonne in the fall

パリジェンヌの親友シルヴィーと秋からソルボーヌ大学入学のお嬢さんのケリーに美味しいディナーをご馳走に

Here's what she made last year: http://bentopapa.blogspot.com/2009/07/paris.html

遊鈴 YouLin: Cuisine française à la maniére japonaise

Having dropped our kids off with our Parisian friend, S for the night, our San Francisco friends, A & L, treated us to an amazing dinner at YouLin, an izakaya-style French restaurant in the Latin Quarter (5th arrondissement). Tucked away in a tiny, uphill street, the understated exterior scales down even further to reveal a quiet and intimate interior. With just a few tables, the soft lighting and solid, dark wood furnishings reinforce the interior's elegantly minimal style.

"YouLin" translates into something like "playing bell," which I took to be a play on furin, a single-bell Japanese wind chime. It was an appropriate nod to the omakase menu—a playful, delicious and beautifully-presented, multi-course dinner of French cuisine infused with Japanese tastes and inspirations. Our Japanese waitress quietly explained each dish as she set them down; each was part of a thoughtfully orchestrated progression of flavors, textures and colors. YouLin has an extensive sake collection but the subtle and clean tastes paired nicely with a dry, Alsatian Rieseling.

パリで数日を過ごすとあきてしまうフランス料理。と言っても数多い似非日本料理店では高くて不味い寿司や焼き鳥でがっかり。そこに友達に紹介してもらった5区のカルチエ・ラテンの「レストラン遊鈴ユウリン」。エレガントな居酒屋雰囲気で和風フレンチをご馳走になった。一品づつ出てくるおまかせコースメニュー、地元の食材を柚子などとペアーリングした最高に美味しいディナー。もう普通のフランス料理はや・め・た!


Vegetable, salmon sashimi terrine
野菜、鮭の刺身のテリーヌ
Cold, frothed corn potage
冷たい泡立てコーン・ポタージュ
Eggplant mille-feuille
なすのミルフーユ

Shrimp & yuzu mousse
海老&柚子のムース
Grilled salmon
鮭のグリル
Granita
グラニータ
Sautéed pork
ポーク・ソテー
Dessert: an insanely light, rasberry mousse cake
デザートには軽いラズベリームースのケーキ

Paris

A beautiful summer in Paris - pleasantly warm. Staying near Bastille; sat down at Café Dalloyau and had a couple of macarons with my coffee. Heaven.

最高なパリの夏。バスティール辺りの発音も出来ないカフェでチョコレート、レモン味のマカロンをコーヒーと。うま〜い^^

Walked past a brasserie with a row of chairs outside, colors coordinated with flair
ブラッスリーの前に綺麗な色の椅子がセンス良く並んでいた


Met up with friends from SF for dinner at an old-style Parisian brasserie:
  • entrecôte de boeuf, served with pepper or bernaise sauce (pepper sauce was the favorite), served with bone & marrow (marrow tastes like a lump of fat, for the record, and had to be washed down with copious amounts of bordeaux) and mâche
  • whole grilled sardines
  • grilled potatoes
  • sautéed zucchini
  • rasberry sorbet with almond crisp
友達と典型的なパリのビストロでディナー:
  • 牛フィレ肉のグリル(ベルネーズ、ペッパー・ソースかけ)、ボーンマロー(デッカい大腿骨にビックリ!中身のマローは油濃くて不味かった)&マッシュ
  • イワシの塩焼き(超美味しい!)
  • ポテト
  • コルジェのソテー
  • デザートにはラズベリーソルベとアーモンド薄焼きクッキ

7/17/10

Grilled salmon & Meyer lemon
Grilled asparagus
Whole grain & bean salad
Heirloom cherry tomatoes
Blueberries
Watermelon

焼き鮭&マイアー・レモン
焼きアスパラ
麦&豆サラダ
エアルーム・トマト(めちゃ甘い)
ブルーベリー
スイカ