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French dessert question
I can't remember a dessert that was mentioned here. it was in a post related to Paris. The dessert involved pastry or cake, ice cream and chocolate sauce. I think. it sounded so good and now I am in Paris and can not remember enough about it.
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profitiroles?
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it is profiteroles. It isn't that easy to find in restaurants any more, a lot of them don't make it.
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Go to a patisserie. Always good for a late afternoon snack.
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Le Relais de L'Entrecote serves profiteroles. At least it used to.
Caveat: many here don't like this restaurant. I love it! http://www.relaisentrecote.fr/ |
Definitely sounds like profiteroles - although I haven;t seen them on a menu for quite a while. They were very 70's, early 80s.
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Le Tastevin on the Ile St Louis does them and they're very good, using dark chocolate. I frequently see them on menus but I tend to frequent traditional places.
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If it is profiteroles, they are not that hard to find in a restaurant. The first restaurant that came to my mind, Julien's, has it on their set menu.
http://www.julienparis.com/en/menu/m...set-meals.html |
We had profiteroles at a restaurant on rue Saint-Antoine in the 4th last summer. I can't recall it's name but it was overpriced and the pastry had probably been done in the morning and was a bit dry. I still gobbled it all up though.
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Julien, with its beautiful period interior, is one of our favorites for lunch.
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well, Odin, I'm afraid I disagree that they are easy to find in a restaurant. Many of the places where I have dined over many years used to have them but do not any more. I don't know if it is because they are out of style or just that they actually do take a lot of time and effort for them to be good, and places don't want to serve them if they are bad (ie, you should have fresh pastry and the sauce must be warmed just before serving). However, I would certainly appreciate you listing 5-10 restaurants that have them if you know of them (and not expensive ones, restaurants less than 50 euro for dinner total, for example).
I have seen them in a couple real cheap places and made the mistake of ordering them in one of them which I'll never do again, as they must have bought the pastry at a grocery store in a bag a couple days before, and then poured cold chocolate sauce on them (and no almonds). I could do that at home. |
I can help with another restaurant, from Christian Constant's web site:
At Café Constant (no reservations, so come early for lunch and dinner) traditional brasserie food is served, at the bar, on the ground and first floor. Choose from a long list written on an antique blackboard. Prices are reasonable and won't break the bank. Starters include Cream of Puy lentilles dotted with foie gras, Oeufs Mimosa, Salade de Crudites, Terrines, etc. Mains include a Beef tartare, Penne with basil and tomatoes, Spanish omelette, steak and chips. Desserts include all the favourites such as Rice Pudding, Peach Melba, Profiterolles, Vacherin, Ile Flottante, Ice creams or cheese. |
And two more:
Perraudin Chardenoux (2011) |
I have never in my life seen profiteroles filled with ice cream. Maybe this is an American invention?
And I know a lot about profiteroles, sweetie darling, as I have been eating them since the crib. Tschuss, Thin |
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Thin,
I would normally yield to your superior experience but in this case, you are wrong re the Paris restaurants I've mentioned. |
I prefer profiteroles filled with pastry cream but I think it's more and more common (even in France) to find them filled with ice cream.
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I think using ice cream is more prevalent in the US, though I don't know if it was invented here.
There is a restaurant in downtown Boston called Brasserie Jo which serves profiteroles filled with vanilla ice cream. When you order them, they bring you a plate of 3, and a pitcher of warm, delicious, dark chocolate sauce which they will proceed to pour over your profiteroles until you say "when". they are soooo good! |
china_cat,
NOW STOP THAT!!! Please :) |
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