Paris 9th: the beautiful Sundays of Bon Georges | Gilles Pudlowski's blog

What is good, nice, expensive, certainly, but worth its price, welcoming curious gourmands from here and elsewhere like lords and treating them to exquisite, fine and unfussy things? Le Bon Georges, of course, at the corner of Saint-Georges and Aumale streets in the heart of this New Athens of which it is more or less the gourmet pearl. Passionate self-taught and born innkeeper, Benoît Duval-Arnould offers seemingly simple cuisine, but which is not so simple, with good products and enthusiastic service, all in a French setting as imagined by locals. American filmmakers.

We will hardly be surprised by the large number of tourists squatting the place, especially on Sundays. Nectoux branded zinc, old pub plaques, wooden benches and tables, high or low, full or empty bottles (from a plethora of cellars) set the tone of a place that has always existed, which we quickly forget is only a few years behind him. Egg mayonnaise, Adour foie gras, veal tongue and vitello tonnato-style tuna gribiche, pan-fried mullet with braised endives, virgin sauce, grapefruit and walnuts or even game green collar, tangy red cabbage, dauphine apple, pear, thigh confit with foie gras are some of the beautiful and good things that await you there, without fuss or affectation.

We add quality meats (in tartare or beautiful matured pieces) signed by the Meusien Polmard, plus pretty desserts like the creamy chocolate and caramel tart with its sesame ice cream (a killer!), the giant vanilla millefeuille and rum or the voluminous chocolate mousse. In short, “real” cuisine, as our friend Nicolas Demorand would say, “ for ferocious appetites and big gullets« .

From a list of wines weighing a few kilos, we extract the champagne of Adrien Renoir “le Terroir” grand cru Verzy or the very digestible Bourgueil of the Domaine du Bel Air “the twenty lieu dits” from the Gauthiers in Benais. Long live Bon Georges, Paris and the France of friendly bistros!

Good George