A new table arouses the curiosity of onlookers rue de la Fontaine au Roi in Paris (11th). In a former creperie, Tiphaine Mollard and Romain Casas have just opened Deux, as a tribute to their respective roots. On one side of Savoy and on the other, Béarn.
A double gastronomic culture which serves as a common thread on the menu and which is found on the plate: tomme croquetas, crozet risotto, Tarbais bean hummus …
The dishes are finely executed, as with this delicious starter of beets cooked in a salt crust with eel and small tart apple cubes (€ 12).
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For the dishes, the pork chop (26 €) is served with a pine-smoked celery and a juice that is too thick but full-bodied as it should be. The table sometimes offers a dish “for two”. That evening, the semi-wild duckling cooked on the trunk and lacquered is envious but is unfortunately out of stock.
Finally for desserts, the essential chartreuse replaces rum in an original baba (€ 11).
From a general point of view, the duo takes care of its sourcing without (too) highlighting it with the good bread of Jean-Luc Poujauran (Paris, 7th) or the spices – astonishing fried green pepper from Madagascar – from Sacré Français in Bordeaux. And the height of chic, it is Romain’s own grandmother who made some of the plates and containers.
Deux, 58, rue de la Fontaine au Roi, Paris 11th