How about pairing your menu not with wine but rather with champagne? This is what the Tatar restaurant, located at Le Châtelain, is offering in association with the Champagne house Veuve Cliquot during an exclusive event menu which will be offered until the end of July. An association that may surprise you, since the idea is to enjoy your meal with a glass of champagne. If the Belgian is rather fond of bubbles, he especially tends to drink them as an aperitif, but rarely while eating.
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Champagne while eating
To confuse our senses and offer us a new culinary experience, chef Luca Termine has imagined two creations to accompany the Veuve Cliquot bubble cup. The first dish offered at 36 euros is a salmon trout tartare served on a turmeric and smoked paprika naan, a kalamansi and jalapeno gel.
If you are not too much for fish, the dish has been made into a vegetarian version. Here, the trout has been replaced by asparagus tartare. Count 32 euros here. Which is a completely fair price since the regular clientele of the establishment knows that the specificity of this restaurant is generally to combine tartars with signature cocktails, sold from 13 euros per cocktail. So we get around fifty euros when we go here to taste the “classic” formula. If you’re not too keen, don’t panic, the restaurant continues to offer its usual menu. For the uninitiated, these are mainly tartars so, as the name suggests, to be enjoyed in all possible ways.
It is sometimes presented in the form of tataki, sashimi, carpaccio or ceviche, sometimes in a more classic form but always with new tastes and flavors. Among the variations currently offered on the menu, we find a cuttlefish tartare, grilled eggplant with miso, dashi broth and spicy sauce. Apart from tartare, Luca Termine and Benjamin Homsy, the chef and partner duo behind Tatar, also offer other more gourmet recipes, such as this pigeon accompanied by black pearl mushroom and calamansi.
If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to try Tatar’s culinary creations, now’s the chance!
In practice
Or ? At the Tatar restaurant, Rue de l’Aqueduc 155, 1050 Ixelles.
When ? During the months of June and July 2024
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