Le Train Bleu
Gare de Lyon
6 Place Louis Armand
75102 Paris
Tel.+33 1 43 43 09 06
The dishes
Sweetbread veal pâté en croute, veal, chestnuts, red onion compote (Pâté en croûte de veau, ris de veau, châtaignes, compotée d’oignons rouges)
Burgundy snails with parsley butter, gnocchi Parisienne with mountain pasture Beaufort cheese (Escargots de Bourgogne au beurre persillé, gnocchis à la Parisienne au Beaufort d’alpage)
Roasted hind filet medallions, shank agnolotti, celery cream, Grand Veneur sauce (Noisette de biche rotie, agnolotti de cuissot, crémeux de céleri, sauce Grand Veneur)
Selection of local mature cheeses (Plateau de fromages affinés de nos regions)
Crêpes Suzette flambées au Grand Marnier (Crêpes Suzette flambéed with Grand Marnier)
Guanaja chocolate soufflé, lemon balm sorbet (Soufflé au chocolat Guanaja, sorbet citron mélisse)
Truly beautiful in its neo-Baroque and Belle Epoque styled design, located on the first floor of the Gare de Lyon (a train station) in the 12 Arrondissement (district) of Paris. As unbelievable as it may sound, this drop-dead gorgeous restaurant -truly one of the most beautiful in the world- was saved from demolition in 1966 by none other than André Malraux (if you attended a French private school like I did, then you are all too well aware of this important author, adventurer, political figure and intellectual) and later, in 1972, named a French Historic Monument thanks to Jacques Duhamel (at the time, the Minister of French Cultural Affairs).
